Yeast SAS silencing genes and human genes associated with AML and HIV- 1 Tat interactions are homologous with acetyltransferases

Nature Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42-49

  Reifsnyder, Cheryl ^a   Lowell, Joanna ^a   Clarke, Astrid ^a   Pillus, Lorraine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 16; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 8; ENHANCER REGION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SILENCER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FUNGAL PROTEINS; G0 PHASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE PRODUCTS, TAT; HIV-1; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0029741343     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0996-42     Document Type: Article

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