Silencing factors participate in DNA repair and rscombination in Saccharomyces cersvisiae

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6645, 1997, Pages 900-903

  Tsukamoto, Yasumasa ^a   Kato, Jun Ichi ^a   Ikeda, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER GENE; YEAST;

DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GAMMA RAYS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030964526     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42288     Document Type: Article

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