Mus81-Mms4 functions as a single heterodimer to cleave nicked intermediates in recombinational DNA repair

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 3065-3080

  Schwartz, Erin K ^a   Wright, William D ^a   Ehmsen, Kirk T ^a   Evans, James E ^a   Stahlberg, Henning ^b   Heyer, Wolf Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDC5 KINASE; FUNGAL DNA; HETERODIMER; MMS4 PROTEIN; MUS81 PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CLEAVES NICKED RECOMBINATION INTERMEDIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MULTIMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RECOMBINATION REPAIR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA, CRUCIFORM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; FLAP ENDONUCLEASES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RECOMBINATIONAL DNA REPAIR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84864592240     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00547-12     Document Type: Article

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