The meiotic recombination hot spot created by the single-base substitution ade6-M26 results in remodeling of chromatin structure in fission yeast

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 876-886

  Mizuno, Ken Ichi ^a   Emura, Yukihiro ^a,b   Baur, Michel ^c   Kohli, Jürg ^c   Ohta, Kunihiro ^a   Shibata, Takehiko ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

chromatin; hot spot; meiosis; recombination; yeast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; GENE LOCUS; MEIOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0030897594     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.7.876     Document Type: Article

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