SUM1-1, a dominant suppressor of SIR mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, increases transcriptional silencing at telomeres and HM mating- type loci and decreases chromosome stability

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 4281-4294

  Chi, Ming Hui ^b   Shore, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPPRESSOR FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0029929846     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.8.4281     Document Type: Article

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