Exploring the multiple facets of the meiotic recombinase Dmc1

BioEssays

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1151-1155

  Sauvageau, Synthia ^a   Ploquin, Mickaël ^a   Masson, Jean Yves ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DMC1; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECA GENE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 8844247124     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20150     Document Type: Review

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