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Abstract
In plants as in other eukaryotes, SMC (Structural Maintenance of Chromosome) protein complexes and proteins interacting with them are essential for sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, DNA repair and recombination. The presence of paralogous genes for various components of the different SMC complexes allowed diversification of their biological functions during evolution of higher plants. Here I summarize the multiple functions of plant SMC complexes and some of the particularities these proteins show in comparison to those of other organisms. (c) 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19556774 DOI: 10.1159/000218126
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cytogenet Genome Res ISSN: 1424-8581 Impact factor: 1.636