Mutant telomeres inhibit transcriptional silencing at native telomeres of the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 268, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 729-738

  Gurevich, R ^a   Smolikov, S ^a   Maddar, H ^a   Krauskopf, A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Kluyveromyces lactis; Rap1p; Silencing; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN RAP1P; RNA; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KLUYVEROMYCES; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; YEAST;

EUKARYOTA; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0037363325     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-002-0788-9     Document Type: Article

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