Localization and properties of a silencing element near the mat3-M mating-type cassette of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 945-963

  Thon, Geneviève ^a   Bjerling, K Pernilla ^a   Nielsen, Inga Sig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE SWITCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRESSOR GENE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CROSSES, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0033057294     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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