Tethered Sir3p nucleates silencing at telomeres and internal loci in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2483-2495

  Lustig, Arthur J ^a,b,c   Liu, Cheng ^a   Zhang, Chen ^b   Hanish, John P ^b,c  

^a Weill Cornell Medical Center   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER GENE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0029914961     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.5.2483     Document Type: Article

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