The ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Rad6 (Ubc2) is required for silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 6693-6699

  Huang, Hanhua ^a   Kahana, Alon ^b,c   Gottschling, Daniel E ^b   Prakash, Louise ^d   Liebman, Susan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER GENE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0030758377     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.11.6693     Document Type: Article

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