Mechanics and Single-Molecule Interrogation of DNA Recombination

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 85, Issue , 2016, Pages 193-226

  Bell, Jason C ^a,b   Kowalczykowski, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BRCA2; DNA repair; Helicase; Microscopy; RecA RAD51; Visual biochemistry

Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; DNA; DNA2 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXO1 PROTEIN; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; MRE11 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RAD50 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; RECF PROTEIN; RECJ PROTEIN; RECQ HELICASE; RECR PROTEIN; SGS1 PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XRS2 PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; MRE11 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RAD50 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RAD52 PROTEIN; RECQ PROTEIN, E COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; AGING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; DNA DENATURATION; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIATOR; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; YEAST; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DNA DAMAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RECOMBINATION REPAIR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SINGLE MOLECULE IMAGING;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RECOMBINATIONAL DNA REPAIR; RECQ HELICASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SINGLE MOLECULE IMAGING;

EID: 84974715499     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060614-034352     Document Type: Article

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