The Sir4 C-terminal coiled coil is required for telomeric and mating type silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 334, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 769-780

  Murphy, Guinevere A ^a,c   Spedale, Erik J ^b   Powell, Sean T ^b   Pillus, Lorraine ^b   Schultz, Steve C ^a,d   Chen, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Dine College   (United States)

Author keywords

Coiled coil; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Silencing; Sir4; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SIR4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MARKER GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0242468006     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.09.066     Document Type: Article

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