Hold your horSSEs: Controlling structure-selective endonucleases MUS81 and Yen1/GEN1

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Blanco, Miguel G ^a   Matos, Joao ^b  

^a Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cdc14; Cdc5 PLK1; Cdk; DNA repair; Holliday junction; Nuclease; Recombination; Replication

Indexed keywords

CHECKPOINT KINASE 2; CHECKPOINT KINASE RAD3; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; ENDONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE GEN1; ENDONUCLEASE MUS81; ENDONUCLEASE YEN1; KARYOPHERIN; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; MUS81 EME1 COMPLEX; MUS81 EME2 COMPLEX; MUS81 MMS4 COMPLEX; MUS81 SLX4 COMPLEX; NUCLEASE S1; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE CDC14; PROTEIN FEN1; PROTEIN MMS4 56E; PROTEIN RAD27; PROTEIN SLX4; RECQ HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84940106082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00253     Document Type: Short Survey

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