Role of heterochromatin in suppressing subtelomeric recombination in fission yeast

Yeast

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 537-548

  Bisht, Kamlesh Kumar ^a   Arora, Sumit ^a,b   Ahmed, Shakil ^a,c   Singh, Jagmohan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Fission yeast; Heterochromatin; Pol ; Recombination; Subtelomere

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; FUNGAL DNA; RAD50 PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA POLYMERASE I; DNA REPLICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TELOMERE;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 50849134865     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1603     Document Type: Article

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