Fission yeast Arp6 is required for telomere silencing, but functions independently of Swi6

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 736-741

  Ueno, Masaru ^a   Murase, Tadashi ^a   Kibe, Tatsuya ^a   Ohashi, Noriyuki ^a   Tomita, Kazunori ^a   Murakami, Yota ^b   Uritani, Masahiro ^a   Ushimaru, Takashi ^a   Harata, Masahiko ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE; YEAST;

ACTINS; ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, FUNGAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 1342327654     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh234     Document Type: Article

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