Long-range communication between the silencers of HMR

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1924-1935

  Valenzuela, Lourdes ^a   Dhillon, Namrita ^a   Dubey, Rudra N ^b   Gartenberg, Marc R ^b   Kamakaka, Rohinton T ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAP1 PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER ELEMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REPRESSION;

CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MODELS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 40349091379     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01647-07     Document Type: Article

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