Endogenous DNA replication stress results in expansion of dNTP pools and a mutator phenotype

EMBO Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 895-907

  Davidson, Marta B ^a   Katou, Yuki ^b   Keszthelyi, Andrea ^c   Sing, Tina L ^a   Xia, Tian ^d   Ou, Jiongwen ^a   Vaisica, Jessica A ^a   Thevakumaran, Neroshan ^a   Marjavaara, Lisette ^c   Myers, Chad L ^d   Chabes, Andrei ^c   Shirahige, Katsuhiko ^e   Brown, Grant W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d University of Minnesota   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates; DNA damage; DNA replication; mutagenesis; ribonucleotide reductase

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; DNA; RAD54 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; HYDROXYUREA; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

PYRONIA TITHONUS; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 84857047373     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.485     Document Type: Article

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