Tex19.1 promotes Spo11-dependent meiotic recombination in mouse spermatocytes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Crichton, James H ^a   Playfoot, Christopher J ^a   MacLennan, Marie ^a   Read, David ^a   Cooke, Howard J ^a   Adams, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN UBR2; SPO11 PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION PROTEIN SPO11; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TEX19 PROTEIN, MOUSE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UBR2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE; GENE LOSS; MALE; MEI4 GENE; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOCYTE; SPO11 GENE; TEX19.1 GENE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPERMATOCYTES; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 85026657413     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006904     Document Type: Article

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