Double-strand break end resection and repair pathway choice

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2011, Pages 247-271

  Symington, Lorraine S ^a   Gautier, Jean ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Checkpoint; Homologous recombination; Ku; MRX N; Nonhomologous end joining; Sae2 CtIP Ctp1

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; BRCA1 ASSOCIATED RING DOMAIN PROTEIN 1; CAMPTOTHECIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; FANCONI ANEMIA PROTEIN; HELICASE; HETERODIMER; KU ANTIGEN; MRE11 PROTEIN; NIBRIN; RAD50 PROTEIN; SPO11 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETV6;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; DNA HELICASES; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; FANCONI ANEMIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, CDC; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINATIONAL DNA REPAIR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 80755187806     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110410-132435     Document Type: Article

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