Two essential MYST-family proteins display distinct roles in histone H4K10 acetylation and telomeric silencing in trypanosomes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1054-1068

  Kawahara, Taemi ^a   Siegel, T Nicolai ^b   Ingram, Alexandra K ^a   Alsford, Sam ^a   Cross, George A M ^b   Horn, David ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ENZYME HAT1; ENZYME HAT2; ENZYME HAT3; HISTONE H4; PROTEIN MYST;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; GENE SILENCING; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETYLATION; ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

PROTOZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 47749130042     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06346.x     Document Type: Article

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