Repair of double-strand breaks by end joining

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Chiruvella, Kishore K ^a   Liang, Zhuobin ^a,b   Wilson, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA LIGASE (ATP); HISTONE; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; DNA LIGASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HISTONES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 84870761222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a012757     Document Type: Article

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