Mek1 kinase governs outcomes of meiotic recombination and the checkpoint response

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1707-1716

  Wu, Hsin Yen ^a   Ho, Hsuan Chung ^a   Burgess, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALLELES; CELL CYCLE; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; GENES, CDC; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 77957829514     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.09.016     Document Type: Article

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