The mechanism of double-strand DNA break repair by the nonhomologous DNA end-joining pathway

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 79, Issue , 2010, Pages 181-211

  Lieber, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemis; DNA ligase IV; DNA PKcs; Ku; XRCC4

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE 5' HYDROXYL KINASE; XRCC4 PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENOME; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; DNA REPAIR; METABOLISM;

EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA LIGASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HUMANS;

EID: 77953229115     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 00664154     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biochem.052308.093131     Document Type: Review

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