Mechanism of transcriptional silencing in yeast

Cell

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-48

  Chen, Lingyi ^a   Widom, Jonathan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 2; PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; BUDDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; MATING; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENE; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 11844303478     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2004.11.030     Document Type: Article

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