The Clr7 and Clr8 directionality factors and the Pcu4 cullin mediate heterochromatin formation in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1583-1595

  Thon, Geneviève ^a   Hansen, Klavs R ^a   Altes, Susagna Padrissa ^a   Sidhu, Deepak ^b   Singh, Gurjeet ^b   Verhein Hansen, Janne ^a   Bonaduce, Michael J ^b   Klar, Amar J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; CULLIN; HISTONE H3; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; LYSINE; NUCLEOPORIN; PROTEIN CLR7; PROTEIN CLR8; PROTEIN NUP189; PROTEIN PCU4; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MATING TYPE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE; UBIQUITINATION; YEAST;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULLIN PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 31544449153     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.048298     Document Type: Article

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