Essential Roles for Polymerase θ-Mediated End Joining in the Repair of Chromosome Breaks

Molecular Cell

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 662-673

  Wyatt, David W ^a   Feng, Wanjuan ^a,b   Conlin, Michael P ^a   Yousefzadeh, Matthew J ^c   Roberts, Steven A ^d   Mieczkowski, Piotr ^b   Wood, Richard D ^c   Gupta, Gaorav P ^a,b   Ramsden, Dale A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; DNA POLYMERASE THETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; KU ANTIGEN; XRCC6 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RNA TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DEFICIENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; TIME FACTOR; TRANSFORMED CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTYPE; KU AUTOANTIGEN; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84992679760     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.06.020     Document Type: Article

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