Cohabitation of insulators and silencing elements in yeast subtelomeric regions

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2522-2537

  Fourel, Geneviève ^a   Revardel, Emmanuelle ^a,b   Koering, Catherine Elaine ^a   Gilson, Éric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Insulator; REB1; Silencer; TBF1; Telomere

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE SILENCING; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; YEAST;

BINDING SITES; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0033522443     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.9.2522     Document Type: Article

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