Heterochromatic marks are associated with the repression of secondary metabolism clusters in Aspergillus nidulans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1376-1386

  Reyes Dominguez, Yazmid ^a,b   Bok, Jin Woo ^c   Berger, Harald ^a,e   Shwab, E Keats ^c   Basheer, Asjad ^a   Gallmetzer, Andreas ^a   Scazzocchio, Claudio ^b,d   Keller, Nancy ^c   Strauss, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE H3; LYSINE; PENICILLIN G; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; TERREQUINONE A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GROWTH CURVE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

ACETYLATION; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; INDOLES; METHYLATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PENICILLINS; STERIGMATOCYSTIN;

EID: 77952890057     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07051.x     Document Type: Article

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