Non-homologous end joining often uses microhomology: Implications for alternative end joining

DNA Repair

Volumn 17, Issue , 2014, Pages 74-80

  Pannunzio, Nicholas R ^a   Li, Sicong ^a   Watanabe, Go ^a   Lieber, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Double strand break repair, Lymphoma, Chromosomal rearrangements, V(D)J recombination, Class switch recombination

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NUCLEASE; DNA LIGASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; MICROHOMOLOGY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TRANSLOCATION LINE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOMES; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84900298762     PISSN: 15687864     EISSN: 15687856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.02.006     Document Type: Article

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