Regulation of homologous recombination in eukaryotes

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2010, Pages 113-139

  Heyer, Wolf Dietrich ^a   Ehmsen, Kirk T ^a   Liu, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclin dependent kinase; DNA damage response (DDR); DNA repair; phosphorylation; sumoylation; ubiquitylation

Indexed keywords

BLOOM SYNDROME HELICASE; BRCA1 ASSOCIATED RING DOMAIN PROTEIN 1; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CHECKPOINT KINASE 2; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; HEXOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD52 PROTEIN; RAD54 PROTEIN;

DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; SUMOYLATION; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; YEASTS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 78149425175     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-051710-150955     Document Type: Review

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