Silencers are required for inheritance of the repressed state in yeast

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1021-1032

  Holmes, Scott G ^a   Broach, James R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

heterochromatin; inheritance of repression; mating type locus; S. cerevisiae; Transcriptional silencers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES; SILENCER GENE; YEAST;

EID: 0029942759     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.8.1021     Document Type: Article

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