RNA-interference-directed chromatin modification coupled to RNA polymerase II transcription

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7046, 2005, Pages 1275-1279

  Schramke, Vera ^a   Sheedy, Daniel M ^a   Denli, Ahmet M ^b   Bonila, Carolina ^c   Ekwall, Karl ^c   Hannon, Gregory J ^b   Allshire, Robin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; YEAST;

CHROMATIN; EUKARYOTES; RNA INTERFERENCE (RNAI); TRANSCRIPTIONAL SILENCING;

RNA;

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME MODIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 21744462775     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03652     Document Type: Article

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