Trypanosoma brucei BRCA2 acts in a life cycle-specific genome stability process and dictates BRC repeat number-dependent RAD51 subnuclear dynamics

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 943-960

  Trenaman, Anna ^a   Hartley, Claire ^a   Prorocic, Marko ^a   Passos Silva, Danielle G ^b   Hoek, Moniek Van Den ^a   Nechyporuk Zloy, Volodymyr ^a   MacHado, Carlos R ^b   McCulloch, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL EXPANSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; VSG GENE;

BRCA2 PROTEIN; CELL DIVISION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 84875453879     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1192     Document Type: Article

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