A methyltransferase targeting assay reveals silencer-telomere interactions in budding yeast

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1498-1508

  Lebrun, Eleonore ^a   Fourel, Geneviève ^a   Defossez, Pierre Antoine ^a   Gilson, Eric ^a  

^a Univ Claude Bernard   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DAM; PROTEIN HML; PROTEIN TETR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 3; DAM IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; GENE; GENE HM; GENE HML; GENE HML E; GENE HMR; GENE III L; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE; RETROPOSON; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER GENE; TELOMERE;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; CYTOPLASM; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VECTORS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OROTIC ACID; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); TELOMERE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTHER SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0037372878     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.5.1498-1508.2003     Document Type: Article

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