Yeast Ty1 retrotransposition is stimulated by a synergistic interaction between mutations in chromatin assembly factor I and histone regulatory proteins

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4783-4792

  Qian, Zhijian ^a,c   Huang, Hanhua ^a   Hong, Joo Yun ^a   Burck, Carol L ^a,d   Johnston, Stephen D ^b   Berman, Judith ^b   Carol, Andy ^a   Liebman, Susan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; MESYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; GENE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; YEAST;

EID: 0031855709     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.8.4783     Document Type: Article

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