Hir proteins are required for position-dependent gene silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the absence of chromatin assembly factor I

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4793-4806

  Kaufman, Paul D ^a,c   Cohen, Jennifer L ^a   Osley, Mary Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOICHIOMETRY; TELOMERE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031858054     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.8.4793     Document Type: Article

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