Pms2 Suppresses Large Expansions of the (GAA·TTC)n Sequence in Neuronal Tissues

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Bourn, Rebecka L ^a   de Biase, Irene ^a,c   Pinto, Ricardo Mouro ^b,d   Sandi, Chiranjeevi ^b   Al Mahdawi, Sahar ^b   Pook, Mark A ^b   Bidichandani, Sanjay I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ARUP LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN PMS2; PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN MSH6; THYMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; MUTS DNA MISMATCH-BINDING PROTEIN; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 84867417215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047085     Document Type: Article

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