Telomerase, Ku, and telomeric silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Chromosoma

Volumn 107, Issue 6-7, 1998, Pages 352-358

  Evans, Sara K ^a   Sistrunk, Melissa L ^a   Nugent, Constance I ^a   Lundblad, Victoria ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TELOMERASE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032427725     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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