Transcription-replication conflicts: How they occur and how they are resolved

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 553-563

  García Muse, Tatiana ^a   Aguilera, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA B; DNA HELICASE; DNA POLYMERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FANCONI ANEMIA PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; DNA; DNA SUPERCOILING; RNA;

CANCER CELL; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; MECHANICAL TORSION; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84978734468     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2016.88     Document Type: Review

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