The dissolution of double Holliday junctions

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Bizard, Anna H ^a   Hickson, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUCIFORM DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE III; RECQ HELICASE;

CHEMISTRY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOLUBILITY;

DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA, CRUCIFORM; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; RECQ HELICASES; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84903783162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016477     Document Type: Article

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