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The mei-41 gene of D. melanogaster is a structural and functional homolog of the human ataxia telangiectasia gene.
Cell - 8 Sept 1995
Hari K L, Santerre A, Sekelsky J J, McKim K S, Boyd J B, Hawley R S
Abstract excerpt
The D. melanogaster mei-41 gene is required for DNA repair, mitotic chromosome stability, and normal levels of meiotic recombination in oocytes. Here we show that the predicted mei-41 protein is similar in sequence to the ATM (ataxia telangiectasia) protein from humans and to the yeast rad3 and Mec1p proteins. There is also extensive functional overlap between mei-41 and ATM. Like ATM-deficient cells, mei-41...
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