Efficient transcriptional silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae requires a heterochromatin histone acetylation pattern

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 4349-4356

  Braunstein, Miriam ^a   Sobel, Richard E ^b   Allis, C David ^b   Turner, Bryan M ^c   Broach, James R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HETEROCHROMATIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

EID: 0029953722     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.8.4349     Document Type: Article

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