The Rad50 coiled-coil domain is indispensable for Mre11 complex functions

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1124-1131

  Hohl, Marcel ^a   Kwon, Youngho ^b   Galván, Sandra Muñoz ^c   Xue, Xiaoyu ^b   Tous, Cristina ^c   Aguilera, Andrés ^c   Sung, Patrick ^b   Petrini, John H J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MRE11 PROTEIN; RAD50 PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

CHROMATIDS; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 80455173885     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2116     Document Type: Article

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