Using genomics and proteomics to investigate mechanisms of transcriptional silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 280-288

  Gao, Lu ^b   Gross, David S ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chromosomal boundary elements; Downstream inhibition model of silencing; Histone modifications; RNA polymerase II; Silent chromatin; Sir proteins

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENOMIC DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; MESSENGER RNA; RAP1 PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SAGA; TRANSFER RNA; HISTONE;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEREOSPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ACYLATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMATIN; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

ACYLATION; CHROMATIN; GENE SILENCING; GENOMICS; HISTONES; METHYLATION; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEOMICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33947116424     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/ell035     Document Type: Review

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