UAS(rpg) can function as a heterochromatin boundary element in yeast

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1089-1101

  Bi, Xin ^a   Broach, James R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin boundary elements; DNA topology; Promoters; Rap1; Silencers; Transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SILENCER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR 1; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TEF2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

BINDING SITES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; MODELS, GENETIC; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0033121285     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.9.1089     Document Type: Article

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