Mechanisms of replication fork protection: A safeguard for genome stability

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 222-235

  Errico, Alessia ^a   Costanzo, Vincenzo ^a  

^a London Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATR; Checkpoint; DNA damage; DNA repair; DNA replication

Indexed keywords

AND1 PROTEIN; ATR PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CLASPIN PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MRE11 PROTEIN; PROTEIN TIMELESS; RAD51 PROTEIN; TIMELESS INTERACTING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMATID; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINATION REPAIR; REVIEW;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIDS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; S PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84860181097     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2012.655374     Document Type: Review

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