Yeast heterochromatin is a dynamic structure that requires silencers continuously

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 452-463

  Cheng, Tzu Hao ^a   Gartenberg, Marc R ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterochromatin; Mating type locus; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Silencers; Sir proteins; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILENCER GENE; YEAST;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; G1 PHASE; GENE SILENCING; GENES, FUNGAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034050798     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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