Tethering RITS to a Nascent Transcript Initiates RNAi- and Heterochromatin-Dependent Gene Silencing

Cell

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 873-886

  Bühler, Marc ^a   Verdel, André ^a   Moazed, Danesh ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE H3; LYSINE; PROTEIN SWI; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 2; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 33646923128     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.04.025     Document Type: Article

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