Temporally and Biochemically Distinct Activities of Exo1 during Meiosis: Double-Strand Break Resection and Resolution of Double Holliday Junctions

Molecular Cell

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1001-1015

  Zakharyevich, Kseniya ^a,b   Ma, Yunmei ^a,b   Tang, Shangming ^a,b   Hwang, Patty Yi Hwa ^a,b   Boiteux, Serge ^c   Hunter, Neil ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; EXO1 ENZYME; NUCLEASE; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MLH3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CROSSING OVER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BIOCATALYSIS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 78650241015     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.11.032     Document Type: Article

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