Functional conservation of Mei4 for meiotic DNA double-strand break formation from yeasts to mice

Genes and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1266-1280

  Kumar, Rajeev ^a   Bourbon, Henri Marc ^b   De Massy, Bernard ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Double strand break; Meiosis; Recombination

Indexed keywords

MEI4; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SPO11 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOLOGY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HISTOLOGY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS; YEAST;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MUS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 77953933766     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.571710     Document Type: Article

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