Budding yeast Pch2, a widely conserved meiotic protein, is involved in the initiation of meiotic recombination

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Farmer, Sarah ^a,f   Hong, Eun Jin Erica ^e   Leung, Wing Kit ^a   Argunhan, Bilge ^a   Terentyev, Yaroslav ^a   Humphryes, Neil ^a   Toyoizumi, Hiroshi ^b,c,d   Tsubouchi, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c Waseda University   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e IMMUNOGEN INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN PCH2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BUDDING; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 6; DIFFERENTIATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE CHECKPOINT GENE; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RAD51 DMC1 GENE; SAE2 GENE; SPO11 GENE; YEAST;

DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; MEIOSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 84862671731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039724     Document Type: Article

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