Recombinational DNA repair in a cellular context: A search for the homology search

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 748-755

  Weiner, Allon ^a   Zauberman, Nathan ^a   Minsky, Abraham ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; COHESIN; MRE11 PROTEIN; NIBRIN; RAD50 PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DEINOCOCCACEAE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EUKARYOTE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 70349280357     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2206     Document Type: Review

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