The dual nature of mismatch repair as antimutator and mutator: For better or for worse

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Bak, Sara Thornby ^a   Sakellariou, Despoina ^a   Pena Diaz, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibody diversification; Chromatin modifiers; Class switch recombination; Neurodegenerative diseases; Non canonical mismatch repair; Somatic hypermutation; Trinucleotide repeats

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY FACTOR 1; MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN; PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN MSH3; PROTEIN MSH6; PROTEIN MUTL; PROTEIN MUTS; PROTEIN MUTS BETA; REPETITIVE DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL DNA GLYCOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTAGENIC ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 84906280949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00287     Document Type: Article

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