COM-1 Promotes Homologous Recombination during Caenorhabditis elegans Meiosis by Antagonizing Ku-Mediated Non-Homologous End Joining

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Lemmens, Bennie B L G ^a   Johnson, Nicholas M ^a   Tijsterman, Marcel ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COM 1 PROTEIN; EXO 1 PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; RAD51 PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SPO11 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EMBRYO MORTALITY; GERM CELL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PROPHASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GERM CELLS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; PACHYTENE STAGE;

EID: 84874784074     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003276     Document Type: Article

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