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An essential role of DmRad51/SpnA in DNA repair and meiotic checkpoint control.
The EMBO journal - 3 Nov 2003
Staeva-Vieira Eric, Yoo Siuk, Lehmann Ruth
Abstract excerpt
Rad51 is a conserved protein essential for recombinational repair of double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) in somatic cells and during meiosis in germ cells. Yeast Rad51 mutants are viable but show meiosis defects. In the mouse, RAD51 deletions cause early embryonic death, suggesting that in higher eukaryotes Rad51 is required for viability. Here we report the identification of SpnA as the Drosophila Rad51 gene,...
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