Acetylation and accessibility of rDNA chromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in Δtop1 and Δsir2 mutants

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 322, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-52

  Cioci, Francesco ^a,c   Vogelauer, Maria ^b   Camilloni, Giorgio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylation; Chromatin; DNA topoisomerase I; rDNA; SIR2

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036966024     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00749-0     Document Type: Article

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