cDNA of the yeast retrotransposon Ty5 preferentially recombines with substrates in silent chromatin

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 484-494

  Ke, Ning ^a   Voytas, Daniel F ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

EID: 0032960480     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.1.484     Document Type: Article

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