Human RecQ helicases in DNA repair, recombination, and replication

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 519-552

  Croteau, Deborah L ^a   Popuri, Venkateswarlu ^a   Opresko, Patricia L ^b   Bohr, Vilhelm A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

BLM; genome stability; RECQL1; RECQL4; RECQL5; WRN

Indexed keywords

BLOOM SYNDROME HELICASE; BRCA1 PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; RECQ HELICASE; RECQL 1 PROTEIN; RECQL 4 PROTEIN; RECQL 5 PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE III; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WERNER SYNDROME PROTEIN; DNA; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; RECQL4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RECQL5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; WRN PROTEIN, HUMAN;

DNA DECATENATION; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EXCISION REPAIR; FANCONI ANEMIA; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RECOMBINATION REPAIR; REVIEW; S PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; TELOMERE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RECQ HELICASES; S PHASE;

EID: 84902187810     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060713-035428     Document Type: Review

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