Four chromo-domain proteins of Schizosaccharomyces pombe differentially repress transcription at various chromosomal locations

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 551-568

  Thon, Geneviève ^a   Verhein Hansen, Janne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; AVIAN PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DEFENSINS; DNA POLYMERASE III; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034046082     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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