The ERCC1/XPF endonuclease is required for completion of homologous recombination at DNA replication forks stalled by inter-strand cross-links

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 6400-6413

  Al Minawi, Ali Z ^a,b   Lee, Yin Fai ^c   Håkansson, Daniel ^b   Johansson, Fredrik ^b   Lundin, Cecilia ^c   Saleh Gohari, Nasrollah ^d   Schultz, Niklas ^b   Jenssen, Dag ^b   Bryant, Helen E ^a   Meuth, Mark ^a   Hinz, John M ^e   Helleday, Thomas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXCISION REPAIR CROSS COMPLEMENTING PROTEIN 1; GENOMIC DNA; MITOMYCIN C; RAD51 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; XRCC3 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA REPLICATION TIMING; DNA STRAND; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE CONSTRUCT; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CISPLATIN; CRICETINAE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; HUMANS; MITOMYCIN; MUTATION; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 70450224524     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp705     Document Type: Article

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