The double-stranded break-forming activity of plant SPO11s and a novel rice SPO11 revealed by a Drosophila bioassay

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shingu, Yoshinori ^a,b   Tokai, Takeshi ^c   Agawa, Yasuo ^d   Toyota, Kentaro ^c   Ahamed, Selina ^c   Kawagishi Kobayashi, Makiko ^e   Komatsu, Akira ^e   Mikawa, Tsutomu ^a,b   Yamamoto, Masa Toshi ^d   Wakasa, Kyo ^c   Shibata, Takehiko ^a,b   Kusano, Kohji ^d  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CROP SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SPO11 PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION PROTEIN SPO11; SPO11 1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; SPO11 2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; SPO11-1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; SPO11-2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANTHER; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; POLLEN MOTHER CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RICE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; TRANSGENE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA TOPOISOMERASES; DROSOPHILA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84855774481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-13-1     Document Type: Article

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