Involvement of the Arabidopsis SWI2/SNF2 Chromatin Remodeling Gene Family in DNA Damage Response and Recombination

From: Genetics | Date: June 1, 2006| Author: Avivi-Ragolsky, Naomi; Levy, Avraham A; Shaked, Hezi | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

The genome of plants, like that of other eukaryotes, is organized into chromatin, a compact structure that reduces the accessibility of DNA to machineries such as transcription, replication, and DNA recombination and repair. Plant genes, which contain the characteristic ATPase/helicase motifs of the chromatin remodeling Swi2/Snf2 family of proteins, have been thoroughly studied, but their role in homologous recombination or DNA repair has received limited attention. We have se...

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