Theme and variation among silencing proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluyveromyces lactis

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1021-1029

  Åström, Stefan U ^a   Rine, Jasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KLUYVEROMYCES; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER GENE;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHIDIUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; INTERCALATING AGENTS; KLUYVEROMYCES; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIRTUINS; TELOMERE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

FUNGI; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031982349     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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