Meiotic functions of RAD18

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 124, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2837-2850

  Inagaki, Akiko ^a   Sleddens Linkels, Esther ^a   Wassenaar, Evelyne ^a   Ooms, Marja ^a   van Cappellen, Wiggert A ^a   Hoeijmakers, Jan H J ^a   Seibler, Jost ^b   Vogt, Thomas F ^c   Shin, Myung K ^c   Grootegoed, J Anton ^a   Baarends, Willy M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TaconicArtemis GmbH   (Germany)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA double strand break repair; HR6B; Meiosis; RAD18; XY body

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RAD18 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; SLINGSHOT HOMOLOG 3; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SPO11 PROTEIN; TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 136; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME HR6A; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME HR6B; UDP GLUCOSE CERAMIDE GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE LIKE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE METHYLATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATID; TESTIS; WILD TYPE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HISTONES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TESTIS; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

MUS;

EID: 79961145160     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.081968     Document Type: Article

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