Pools and pols: Mechanism of a mutator phenotype

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 5864-5865

  Sohl, Christal D ^a   Ray, Sreerupa ^a   Sweasy, Joann B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARATHION; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE;

ALLELE; CANCER CELL LINE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA DAMAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERMLINE MUTATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; UPREGULATION; CHEMISTRY; COLON TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA POLYMERASE III; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHATES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84929224167     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1505169112     Document Type: Note

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