Cell type-specific chromatin organization of the region that governs directionality of yeast mating type switching

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 4352-4360

  Weiss, Kerstin ^a   Simpson, Robert T ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2; Recombination enhancer; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Silent mating type loci

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENHANCER REGION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030752309     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.14.4352     Document Type: Article

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