Targeting Sir proteins to sites of action: A general mechanism for regulated repression

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 401-412

  Cockell, M ^a   Gotta, M ^a,b   Palladino, F ^a,c   Martin, S G ^a   Gasser, S M ^a  

^a SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; RAP1 PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 2; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 3; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA REPLICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; YEAST; ADE2 GENE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIF2 GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE; URA3 GENE;

EID: 0032459429     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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