Identification of a novel allele of SIR3 defective in the maintenance, but not the establishment, of silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 523-538

  Enomoto, Shinichiro ^a   Johnston, Stephen D ^a,b   Berman, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0034044839     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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