Histone H3 N-terminus regulates higher order structure of yeast heterochromatin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 13153-13159

  Sperling, Adam S ^a   Grunstein, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hml and hmr; Silencing; Sir proteins; Telomere

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; LYSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN; SUCROSE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEACETYLATION; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE LOCUS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; YEAST;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; LYSINE; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 69449084972     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906866106     Document Type: Article

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