The human Holliday junction resolvase GEN1 rescues the meiotic phenotype of a Schizosaccharomyces pombe mus81 mutant

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1866-1873

  Lorenz, Alexander ^a   West, Stephen C ^b   Whitby, Matthew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPTOTHECIN; CROSSOVER JUNCTION ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; NUCLEASE; PROTEIN GEN1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; GEN1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HELICASE; MUS81 PROTEIN, S POMBE; MUTAGENIC AGENT; RQH1 PROTEIN, S POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTOXICITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

DNA HELICASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION RESOLVASES; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

EID: 77951243565     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp1179     Document Type: Article

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