Yeast silencers create domains of nuclease-resistant chromatin in an SIR4-dependent manner

Chromosoma

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 136-148

  Reimer, Susan K ^a,b   Buchman, Andrew R ^a,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EXELIXIS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; FUNGAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; REPORTER GENE; SILENCER GENE; YEAST;

ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030931448     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050233     Document Type: Article

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