Depletion of H2A-H2B dimers in Saccharomyces cerevisiae triggers meiotic arrest by reducing IME1 expression and activating the BUB2-dependent branch of the spindle checkpoint

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1333-1344

  Hanlon, Sean E ^a   Norris, David N ^a,b   Vershon, Andrew K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PAREXEL INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DIMER; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; HISTONE H2A; HISTONE H2B; PROTEIN BUB2; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IME1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HISTONES; HOMOZYGOTE; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0042318521     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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