The meiotic recombination checkpoint suppresses NHK-1 kinase to prevent reorganisation of the oocyte nucleus in Drosophila

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Lancaster, Oscar M ^a,c   Breuer, Manuel ^a   Cullen, C Fiona ^a   Ito, Takashi ^b   Ohkura, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; ATR PROTEIN; CONDENSIN; HISTONE H2A; NUCLEOSOME HISTONE KINASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTONE; NHK 1 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NHK-1 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PROTAMINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

METAZOA;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTONES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTAMINE KINASE;

EID: 78449243967     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001179     Document Type: Article

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