Fission yeast mutants that alleviate transcriptional silencing in centromeric flanking repeats and disrupt chromosome segregation

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1153-1169

  Ekwall, Karl ^a,b   Cranston, Gwen ^a,c   Allshire, Robin C ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c MRC Collaborative Centre Scotland   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENOTYPE; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SILENCER GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; MUTAGENESIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, FUNGAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032737464     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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