Mus81 nuclease and Sgs1 helicase are essential for meiotic recombination in a protist lacking a synaptonemal complex

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 9296-9309

  Lukaszewicz, Agnieszka ^a   Howard Till, Rachel A ^a   Loidl, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; HELICASE SGS1; NUCLEASE; NUCLEASE MUS81; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MUTL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; MUS81 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SGS1 GENE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TETRAHYMENA;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RECQ HELICASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 84890071693     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt703     Document Type: Article

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