Expansion and contraction of ribosomal DNA repeats in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Requirement of replication fork blocking (Fob1) protein and the role of RNA polymerase I

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 3821-3830

  Kobayashi, Takehiko ^a   Heck, Denis J ^b,c   Nomura, Masayasu ^b   Horiuchi, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BECKMAN COULTER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene amplification; Recombination hot spot; Replication fork blocking; Ribosomal DNA; RNA polymerase I; Sequence homogenization

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PROTEIN FOB1; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALGAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032535478     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.24.3821     Document Type: Article

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