The MRE11 complex: Starting from the ends

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 90-103

  Stracker, Travis H ^a   Petrini, John H J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MRE11 PROTEIN; NIBRIN; RAD50 PROTEIN;

CELL CYCLE REGULATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METABOLISM; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78951474460     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3047     Document Type: Review

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