Clamping down on mammalian meiosis

Cell Cycle

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 3135-3334

  Lyndaker, Amy M ^a   Vasileva, Ana ^b   Wolgemuth, Debra J ^b   Weiss, Robert S ^a   Lieberman, Howard B ^b,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

ATR; Double strand break repair; HUS1B; Meiosis; Pachytene checkpoint; RAD9A RAD1 HUS1 complex; RAD9B; Synapsis; TOPBP1

Indexed keywords

ATR PROTEIN; PROTEIN RAD1; PROTEIN RAD9; RNA POLYMERASE II; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FERTILITY; GAMETOGENESIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID; SOMATIC CELL; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIS;

ATR; DOUBLE-STRAND BREAK REPAIR; HUS1B; MEIOSIS; PACHYTENE CHECKPOINT; RAD9A-RAD1-HUS1 COMPLEX; RAD9B; SYNAPSIS; TOPBP1;

ANIMALS; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA MUTATED PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA REPAIR; EXONUCLEASES; FERTILITY; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84886703725     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.26061     Document Type: Review

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