Base flipping in V(D)J recombination: Insights into the mechanism of hairpin formation, the 12/23 rule, and the coordination of double-strand breaks

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 5889-5899

  Bischerour, Julien ^a,c   Lu, Catherine ^b   Roth, David B ^b   Chalmers, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; RAG1 PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; COVALENT BOND; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VDJ EXON;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OXIDES; PYRIMIDINE DIMERS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VDJ EXONS;

EID: 70350545721     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00187-09     Document Type: Article

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