Transcriptional silencing in yeast is associated with reduced nucleosome acetylation

Genes and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 592-604

  Braunstein, Miriam ^a   Rose, Alan B ^c   Holmes, Scott G ^a   David Allis, C ^b   Broach, James R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterochromatin formation; Histone acetylation; Mating type cassettes; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Telomeres; Transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

HISTONE; LYSINE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEACETYLATION; GENE; GENE REPRESSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER GENE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETYLATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; NUCLEOSOMES; PLASMIDS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0027192267     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.7.4.592     Document Type: Article

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