SIR repression of a yeast heat shock gene: UAS and TATA footprints persist within heterochromatin

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 7041-7055

  Sekinger, Edward A ^a   Gross, David S ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat shock factor; Heterochromatin; Mating type silencers; TATA binding protein; Transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DIMETHYL SULFATE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TATA BOX;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033572683     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.24.7041     Document Type: Article

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