Sufficient amounts of functional HOP2/MND1 complex promote interhomolog DNA repair but are dispensable for intersister DNA repair during meiosis in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4924-4940

  Uanschou, Clemens ^a   Ronceret, Arnaud ^b,d   Von Harder, Mona ^a   De Muyt, Arnaud ^b,e   Vezon, Daniel ^b   Pereira, Lucie ^b   Chelysheva, Liudmila ^b   Kobayashi, Wataru ^c   Kurumizaka, Hitoshi ^c   Schlögelhofer, Peter ^a   Grelon, Mathilde ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^e INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AHP2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ATDMC1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; MND1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RECA PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATID; CYTOLOGY; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN STABILITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIDS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN STABILITY; REC A RECOMBINASES;

EID: 84893154852     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.118521     Document Type: Article

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