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Editors:
- Andrés Aguilera
- Centro Andaluz de Biologia Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa CABIMER, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
- Rodney Rothstein
- Department of Genetics & Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA
Covers one of the most important topics in modern biology: recombination
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Genetic recombination is an important process involved in shaping the genetic make up of progeny. Increasingly, it has become evident that recombination is a DNA repair pathway crucial during DNA replication in vegetatively growing cells. It plays a critical role in preserving the integrity of the genome by mediating the repair of DNA damage, which can occur during normal cellular metabolism as a result of oxidative stress, transcription, replication fork stalling or breakdown, or after the exposure to DNA damaging agents. Until recently, much of our knowledge on the mechanisms of genetic recombination has come from studies of prokaryotic and simple eukaryotic fungal systems. However, these studies have now been significantly extended to mammals, such that a comparative picture of the general factors and mechanisms of genetic recombination is beginning to emerge. Detailed genetic and biochemical studies have led to the isolation and characterization of many of the recombination-repair proteins in E. coli and S. cerevisiae, which in turn has led to the identification of homologues in human cells. The link between recombination defects and recombination proteins in a number of tumors as well as in human hereditary syndromes makes genetic recombination a cellular process of key importance not only in basic biology but also in biomedical studies.
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Editors and Affiliations
Centro Andaluz de Biologia Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa CABIMER, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Andrés Aguilera
Department of Genetics & Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA
Rodney Rothstein
Bibliographic Information
- Book Title: Molecular Genetics of Recombination
- Editors: Andrés Aguilera, Rodney Rothstein
- Series Title: Topics in Current Genetics
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71021-9
- Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
- eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
- Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
- Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-71020-2Published: 03 April 2007
- Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09005-9Published: 19 November 2010
- eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-71021-9Published: 24 April 2007
- Series ISSN: 1610-2096
- Series E-ISSN: 1610-6970
- Edition Number: 1
- Number of Pages: XXIV, 524
- Topics: Cell Biology, Biochemistry, general, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Animal Genetics and Genomics