Transcriptional activity and chromatin structure of enhancer-deleted rRNA genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 4953-4960

  Banditt, Michael ^a   Koller, Theo ^a   Sogo, José M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ENHANCER REGION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032999258     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.7.4953     Document Type: Article

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