A chromodomain protein, Chp1, is required for the establishment of heterochromatin in fission yeast

EMBO Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3825-3835

  Sadaie, Mahito ^a   Iida, Tetsushi ^b   Urano, Takeshi ^c   Nakayama, Jun Ichi ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromodomain; Fission yeast; Heterochromatin; RNAi; Silencing

Indexed keywords

HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE CLR4; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CHP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; EPIGENETICS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TELOMERE; YEAST;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; METHYLATION; RNA, FUNGAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TELOMERE;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 6344285337     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600401     Document Type: Article

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