The fission yeast heterochromatin protein Rik1 is required for telomere clustering during meiosis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 165, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 759-765

  Tuzon, Creighton T ^a,b   Borgstrom, Britta ^c   Weilguny, Dietmar ^c,d   Egel, Richard ^c   Cooper, Julia Promisel ^a,b   Nielsen, Olaf ^c  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d NatImmune A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chromosome behavior; Histone methylation; Horsetail movement; S. pombe; Silencing

Indexed keywords

CLR4 HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; CLR4 PROTEIN; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; RIK1 PROTEIN; SWI6 PROTEIN; TAZ1 PROTEIN; TELOMERE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME END FUSION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MATING TYPE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TELOMERE; TELOMERE CLUSTERING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TELOMERE;

EQUISETUM; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 3042640887     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200312061     Document Type: Article

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