Budding yeast centromere composition and assembly as revealed by in vivo cross-linking

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 3401-3412

  Meluh, Pamela B ^a   Koshland, Douglas ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

CENP C; Centromere; Chromatin immunoprecipitation; CSE4; Kinetochore; MIF2

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CROSS LINKING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ENHANCER REGION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; YEAST;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0031440948     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.24.3401     Document Type: Article

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