Evidence that the transcriptional regulators SIN3 and RPD3, and a novel gene (SDS3) with similar functions, are involved in transcriptional silencing in S. cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1343-1353

  Vannier, David ^a   Balderes, Dina ^a   Shore, David ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIPLOIDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; HAPLOIDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030465738     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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