XRCC4's interaction with XLF is required for coding (but not signal) end joining

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1684-1694

  Roy, Sunetra ^a,b   Andres, Sara N ^c   Vergnes, Alexandra ^d,e   Neal, Jessica A ^a,b   Xu, Yao ^a,b   Yu, Yaping ^f,g   Lees Miller, Susan P ^f,g   Junop, Murray ^c   Modesti, Mauro ^d,e   Meek, Katheryn ^a,b  

^a Department of Population Health   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN XLF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XRCC4 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; VDJ EXON;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; DNA LIGASES; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; RADIATION TOLERANCE; V(D)J RECOMBINATION;

EID: 84863230094     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1315     Document Type: Article

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