Destabilization of simple repetitive DNA sequences by transcription in yeast

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 713-721

  Wierdl, Monika ^a   Greene, Christopher N ^b   Datta, Abhijit ^b   Jinks Robertson, Sue ^b   Petes, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; YEAST;

DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030068124     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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