An experimental system for the study of mutations in the HMR locus of saccharomyces cerevisiae: The insertion of Ty into HMRa vs. the conversion of HMRa to HMRα

Yeast

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 723-730

  Nishida, Yuri ^a   Ono, Bun Ichiro ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene conversion; Mating type cassettes; Saccharmyces cerevisiae; Ty1 retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN HMR; RAD52 PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; MATING SYSTEM; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CHROMOSOME WALKING; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROELEMENTS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34548671846     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1507     Document Type: Article

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