Loss of ATM kinase activity leads to embryonic lethality in mice

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 295-304

  Daniel, Jeremy A ^a,b   Pellegrini, Manuela ^a,c   Lee, Baeck Seung ^d   Guo, Zhi ^e,f   Filsuf, Darius ^a   Belkina, Natalya V ^a   You, Zhongsheng ^d   Paull, Tanya T ^e   Sleckman, Barry P ^d   Feigenbaum, Lionel ^a   Nussenzweig, André ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSE; ATM PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CATALYSIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LETHALITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CATALYSIS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; MUS;

EID: 84866445314     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 15408140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201204035     Document Type: Article

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