Pathways for holliday junction processing during homologous recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1921-1933

  Ashton, Thomas M ^a   Mankouri, Hocine W ^a,b   Heidenblut, Anna ^a   McHugh, Peter J ^a   Hickson, Ian D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RMI1 GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CRUCIFORM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAP ENDONUCLEASES; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION RESOLVASES; METHYL METHANESULFONATE; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 79955456518     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01130-10     Document Type: Article

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