Chromatin assembly factor I contributes to the maintenance but not the re-establishment silencing at the yeast silent mating loci

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 219-232

  Enomoto, Shinichiro ^a   Berman, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Histone acetylation; Rap1 localization factors; Silencing; Sir proteins

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY FACTOR 1; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; HISTONE H4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENT GENE; TELOMERE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031985051     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.2.219     Document Type: Article

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