The CSN/COP9 Signalosome Regulates Synaptonemal Complex Assembly during Meiotic Prophase I of Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Brockway, Heather ^a   Balukoff, Nathan ^a   Dean, Martha ^a   Alleva, Benjamin ^a   Smolikove, Sarit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COP9 SIGNALOSOME; CSN COP9 SIGNALOSOME; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MUTANT; NEDDYLATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84912058922     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004757     Document Type: Article

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