Combinatorial Regulation of Meiotic Holliday Junction Resolution in C. elegans by HIM-6 (BLM) Helicase, SLX-4, and the SLX-1, MUS-81 and XPF-1 Nucleases

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Agostinho, Ana ^a   Meier, Bettina ^a   Sonneville, Remi ^a   Jagut, Marlène ^b   Woglar, Alexander ^b   Blow, Julian ^a   Jantsch, Verena ^b   Gartner, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOM SYNDROME HELICASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; ESTERASE; NUCLEASE; PROTEIN GEN 1; PROTEIN MUS 81; PROTEIN SLX 1; PROTEIN SLX 4; PROTEIN SPO 11; PROTEIN XPF 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; IONIZING RADIATION; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA HELICASES; DNA, CRUCIFORM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICE; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84880772917     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003591     Document Type: Article

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