Highly precise and developmentally programmed genome assembly in paramecium requires ligase IV-dependent end joining

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Kapusta, Aurélie ^a,b,c   Matsuda, Atsushi ^d,e   Marmignon, Antoine ^a,b,c   Ku, Michael ^d   Silve, Aude ^a   Meyer, Eric ^c   Forney, James D ^d   Malinsky, Sophie ^c,f   Bétermier, Mireille ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA LIGASE 4; DNA POLYMERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XRCC4 PROTEIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE (ATP); PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOGAMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; LIG4 GENE; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; RNA INTERFERENCE; XRCC4 GENE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PARAMECIUM; TRANSPOSON;

CILIOPHORA; PARAMECIUM;

DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA LIGASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; PARAMECIUM; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79955624002     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002049     Document Type: Article

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