Limitations of silencing at native yeast telomeres

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2538-2550

  Pryde, Fiona E ^a   Louis, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Native telomeres; Proto silencers; Silencing; X elements; Y' elements

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TELOMERE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033522444     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.9.2538     Document Type: Article

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