Diverse and dynamic functions of the Sir silencing complex

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 281-285

  Guarente, Leonard ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA;

CELL CYCLE; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA REPAIR; DYNAMICS; ENZYME MODIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TELOMERE; YEAST;

CELL CYCLE; CHROMATIN; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIRTUINS; TELOMERE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; YEASTS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032750220     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/15458     Document Type: Review

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