A mutation in the FHA domain of coprinus cinereus nbs1 leads to spo11-independent meiotic recombination and chromosome segregation

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1927-1943

  Crown, K Nicole ^a,e   Savytskyy, Oleksandr P ^a   Malik, Shehre Banoo ^b   Logsdon, John ^b   Williams, R Scott ^c   Tainer, John A ^d   Zolan, Miriam E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cinereus; Coprinus; DNA replication; Meiosis; MRN complex; Recombination

Indexed keywords

CAMPTOTHECIN; CHECKPOINT KINASE RAD3; HISTONE H2AX; NIBRIN; SPO11 PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPRINUS; COPRINUS CINEREUS; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FORKHEAD ASSOCIATED DOMAIN; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; INTRON; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOP CODON;

COPRINUS CINEREUS; DNA REPLICATION; MEIOSIS; MRN COMPLEX; RECOMBINATION;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; COPRINUS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HISTONES; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84889027192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.113.007906     Document Type: Article

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