All four core histone N-termini contain sequences required for the repression of basal transcription in yeast

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 3974-3985

  Lenfant, Françoise ^a   Mann, Randall K ^a   Thomsen, Bo ^a   Ling, Xuefeng ^a   Grunstein, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal transcription; Chromatin; Histones; Repression; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

FLUOROOROTIC ACID; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; MINICHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPORTER GENE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029739422     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00771.x     Document Type: Article

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