High-resolution structural analysis of chromatin at specific loci: Saccharomyces cerevisiae silent mating-type locus HMRa

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 7944-7950

  Ravindra, Anish ^a   Weiss, Kerstin ^a,b   Simpson, Robert T ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033499772     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.12.7944     Document Type: Article

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