Trans-acting antisense RNAs mediate transcriptional gene cosuppression in S. cerevisiae

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1534-1545

  Camblong, Jurgi ^a,b   Beyrouthy, Nissrine ^a   Guffanti, Elisa ^a   Schlaepfer, Guillaume ^a   Steinmetz, Lars M ^a,c   Stutz, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; cis and trans transcriptional gene silencing; Cosuppression; Noncoding RNA; PHO84; RNAi independent TGS; S. cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE SET1; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; PHO84 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; PHOSPHATE PROTON COTRANSPORTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SET1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PHO84 GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; PROTON-PHOSPHATE SYMPORTERS; RNA, ANTISENSE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 67649666831     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.522509     Document Type: Article

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