Turning genes off by Ssn6-Tup1: A conserved system of transcriptional repression in eukaryotes

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 325-330

  Smitha, Rebecca L ^a   Johnsonb, Alexander D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0034234638     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(00)01592-9     Document Type: Review

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