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Evidence that MEK1 positively promotes interhomologue double-strand break repair.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jul 2010
Terentyev Yaroslav, Johnson Rebecca, Neale Matthew J, Khisroon Muhammad, Bishop-Bailey Anna, Goldman Alastair S H
Abstract excerpt
During meiosis there is an imperative to create sufficient crossovers for homologue segregation. This can be achieved during repair of programmed DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), which are biased towards using a homologue rather than sister chromatid as a repair template. Various proteins contribute to this bias, one of which is a meiosis specific kinase Mek1. It has been proposed that Mek1 establishes the bias...
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