Genetic analysis of mlh3 mutations reveals interactions between crossover promoting factors during meiosis in baker's yeast

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-22

  Brown, Megan Sonntag ^a   Lim, Elisha ^a   Chen, Cheng ^a   Nishant, K T ^b   Alani, Eric ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Crossing over; DNA mismatch; Meiotic; Mlh1 Mlh3; Msh4 Msh5; Recombination; Repair

Indexed keywords

MLH3 PROTEIN; MMS4 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MLH1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FLAP ENDONUCLEASE; MLH3 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; MMS4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CROSSING OVER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; INDEL MUTATION; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROPHASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; METABOLISM; MLH1-MLH3; MSH4-MSH5; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CROSSING OVER; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; MLH1-MLH3; MSH4-MSH5;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; FLAP ENDONUCLEASES; HYDROLYSIS; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 85047686697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.004622     Document Type: Article

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