In Vivo Dynamics of Swi6 in Yeast: Evidence for a Stochastic Model of Heterochromatin

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 3157-3167

  Cheutin, Thierry ^a   Gorski, Stanislaw A ^a   May, Karen M ^b   Singh, Prim B ^b   Misteli, Tom ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HISTONE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CLR1; PROTEIN CLR2; PROTEIN CLR3; PROTEIN CLR4; PROTEIN RIK1; PROTEIN SWI6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUCHROMATIN; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

FUNGI; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 1842505448     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.8.3157-3167.2004     Document Type: Article

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