Histone acetylation and deacetylation in yeast

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 276-284

  Kurdistani, Siavash K ^a   Grunstein, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE;

ACETYLATION; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DEACETYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037380209     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1075     Document Type: Review

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