Zygotic Genome Activation Triggers Chromosome Damage and Checkpoint Signaling in C. elegans Primordial Germ Cells

Developmental Cell

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 85-95

  Butuči, Melina ^a   Williams, Ashley B ^a,b   Wong, Matthew M ^a   Kramer, Brendan ^a   Michael, W Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); RNA POLYMERASE II; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; DNA CONTENT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; G2 PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MICROBIAL GENOME; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; ZYGOTE; ZYGOTIC GENOME ACTIVATION; ANIMAL; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GERM CELL; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; DNA DAMAGE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERM CELLS; MUTATION; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84943365070     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.04.019     Document Type: Article

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