Sim4: A novel fission yeast kinetochore protein required for centromeric silencing and chromosome segregation

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 295-307

  Pidoux, Alison L ^a,b   Richardson, William ^b   Allshire, Robin C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centromere; Chromatin; Chromosome segregation; Kinetochore; Silencing

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; KINETOCHORES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0038746728     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200212110     Document Type: Article

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