A novel type of silencing factor, Clr2, is necessary for transcriptional silencing at various chromosomal locations in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 4421-4428

  Bjerling, Pernilla ^a,b,c   Ekwall, Karl ^a   Egel, Richard ^b   Thon, Geneviève ^b  

^a SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE DEACETYLASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLR2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CLR2 PROTEIN, S POMBE; HISTONE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ACETYLATION; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

MAMMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ACETYLATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 4243144074     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh780     Document Type: Article

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