Meiotic DNA double-strand break repair requires two nucleases, MRN and Ctp1, to produce a single size class of Rec12 (Spo11)-oligonucleotide complexes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 5998-6005

  Milman, Neta ^a   Higuchi, Emily ^a   Smith, Gerald R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MRE11 PROTEIN; NIBRIN; RAD50 PROTEIN; SPO11 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; KINETICS; MEIOSIS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 71949092988     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01127-09     Document Type: Article

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