Meiotic cohesin complexes are essential for the formation of the axial element in mice

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 197, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 877-885

  Llano, Elena ^a,b   Herrán, Yurema ^a   García Tuñón, Ignacio ^a   Gutiérrez Caballero, Cristina ^a   de Álava, Enrique ^a   Barbero, José Luis ^d   Schimenti, John ^e   de Rooij, Dirk G ^f   Sánchez Martín, Manuel ^c   Pendás, Alberto M ^a  

^a Salamanca Spain   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^e Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; PROTEIN RAD21; PROTEIN REC8; RAD51 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84863738653     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 15408140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201201100     Document Type: Article

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