Sir2 regulates histone H3 lysine 9 methylation and heterochromatin assembly in fission yeast

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1240-1246

  Shankaranarayana, Gurumurthy D ^a   Motamedi, Mohammad R ^b   Moazed, Danesh ^b   Grewal, Shiv I S ^a,c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0038714132     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00489-5     Document Type: Article

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