Multiple modes of chromatin configuration at natural meiotic recombination hot spots in fission yeast

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2072-2080

  Hirota, Kouji ^a,b   Steiner, Walter W ^c   Shibata, Takehiko ^b   Ohta, Kunihiro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^c NIAGARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; ATF1 PROTEIN, S POMBE; CYCLIC AMP; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; RAD32 PROTEIN, S POMBE; REC12 PROTEIN, S POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYTOLOGY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYCLIC AMP; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; GENOME, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 36849029137     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00246-07     Document Type: Article

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