Esc1, a nuclear periphery protein required for Sir4-based plasmid anchoring and partitioning

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 8292-8301

  Andrulis, Erik D ^a   Zappulla, David C ^a   Ansari, Athar ^a   Perrod, Severine ^a   Laiosa, Catherine V ^a   Gartenberg, Marc R ^a   Sternglanz, Rolf ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN ESC1; PROTEIN RAD7; PROTEIN SIR1; RAP1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEOLUS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TELOMERE; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; RAP1 GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0036889312     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.22.23.8292-8301.2002     Document Type: Article

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