MEI4 - a central player in the regulation of meiotic DNA double-strand break formation in the mouse

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 128, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1800-1811

  Kumar, Rajeev ^a,g   Ghyselinck, Norbert ^b   Ishiguro, Kei ichiro ^c   Watanabe, Yoshinori ^d   Kouznetsova, Anna ^d   Höög, Christer ^d   Strong, Edward ^e   Schimenti, John ^e   Daniel, Katrin ^f   Toth, Attila ^f   de Massy, Bernard ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine T9014A ^*  (United States)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

DNA double strand break; Meiosis; Recombination; Synapsis

Indexed keywords

DNA; MEI4 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RAD21L PROTEIN; REC8 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CCNB1IP1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; COHESIN; NOHMA PROTEIN, MOUSE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REC8 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; STRA8 PROTEIN, MOUSE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATOCYTE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TIME FACTOR;

SYNAPSIS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TIME FACTORS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 84929497953     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.165464     Document Type: Article

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