SLX-1 Is Required for Maintaining Genomic Integrity and Promoting Meiotic Noncrossovers in the Caenorhabditis elegans Germline

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Saito, Takamune T ^a   Mohideen, Firaz ^a   Meyer, Katherine ^a   Harper, J Wade ^a   Colaiácovo, Monica P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOM SYNDROME HELICASE; CHLORMETHINE; ENDONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE GEN 1; ENDONUCLEASE HIM 18; ENDONUCLEASE SLX 1; ENDONUCLEASE XPF1; RAD51 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; HELICASE; HIM 18 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HIM-18 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SLX 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SLX-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; XPF 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; XPF-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

3' FLAP; 5' FLAP; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DELETION MUTANT; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRUCTURE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCISION REPAIR; FEMALE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMICS; GERM LINE; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERSTRAND CROSSLINK REPAIR; MALE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC NONCROSSOVER; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPLICATION FORK; SLX 1 GENE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; METABOLISM; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA HELICASES; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS;

EID: 84866177912     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002888     Document Type: Article

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