Molecular Genetics of Recombination

Cover......Page 1
Series Title Page......Page 2
Inside Cover......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 9
List of contributors......Page 18
Genetics of recombination in the model bacterium Escherichia coli......Page 22
Homologous recombination in low dC + dG Gram-positive bacteria......Page 48
The bacterial RecA protein: structure, function, and regulation......Page 74
Biochemistry of eukaryotic homologous recombination......Page 116
DNA helicases in recombination......Page 155
Holliday junction resolution......Page 188
Replication forks and replication checkpoints in repair......Page 219
Sister chromatid recombination......Page 238
Mating-type switching in S. pombe......Page 267
Multiple mechanisms of repairing meganuclease-induced double-strand DNA breaks in budding yeast......Page 300
The cell biology of mitotic recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae......Page 332
The cell biology of homologous recombination......Page 349
BRCA2: safeguarding the genome through homologous recombination......Page 377
Meiotic recombination......Page 395
Site-specific recombination......Page 457
V(D)J recombination: mechanism and consequences......Page 482
Nonhomologous end-joining: mechanisms, conservation and relationship to illegitimate recombination......Page 500
Index......Page 527