The Sir2-Sum1 complex represses transcription using both promoter-specific and long-range mechanisms to regulate cell identity and sexual cycle in the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Hickman, Meleah A ^a   Rusche, Laura N ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; PROTEIN SUM1; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; SIR2 PROTEIN, KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SIRTUIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING;

KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; KLUYVEROMYCES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SIRTUINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 73649143127     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000710     Document Type: Article

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