The yeast silent information regulator Sir4p anchors and partitions plasmids

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 7061-7068

  Ansari, Athar ^a   Gartenberg, Marc R ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC LINKAGE; MITOSIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SILENCER GENE; YEAST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030657930     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.12.7061     Document Type: Article

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