Mammalian BTBD12 (SLX4) protects against genomic instability during mammalian spermatogenesis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Holloway, J Kim ^a   Mohan, Swapna ^a   Balmus, Gabriel ^a   Sun, Xianfei ^a   Modzelewski, Andrew ^a   Borst, Peter L ^a   Freire, Raimundo ^b   Weiss, Robert S ^a   Cohen, Paula E ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; BTB DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 12; HISTONE H2AX; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MLH3; RAD51 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BTBD12 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RECOMBINASE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BTB DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 12 GENE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICRONUCLEUS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SUBFERTILITY; TESTIS; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MALE; MAMMALS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 79959821094     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002094     Document Type: Article

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