DNA-pairing and annealing processes in homologous recombination and homology-directed repair

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Morrical, Scott W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUCIFORM DNA; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HETERODUPLEX;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

DNA; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DNA, CRUCIFORM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES;

EID: 84922575928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016444     Document Type: Article

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