Silencing and haritable domains of gene expression

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 1995, Pages 519-548

  Loo, Stephen ^a   Rine, Jasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Mating type; Position effect; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; YEAST;

ALLELES; CELL CYCLE; CHROMATIN; DNA REPLICATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTONES; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; RAP GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0029591894     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cb.11.110195.002511     Document Type: Article

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