Direct recognition of homology between double helices of DNA in Neurospora crassa

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gladyshev, Eugene ^a   Kleckner, Nancy ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; POLY(DEOXYADENYLATE DEOXYTHYMIDYLATE); RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA HELIX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; INVERTED REPEAT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POINT MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84898723553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4509     Document Type: Article

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