Corepressor-directed preacetylation of histone H3 in promoter chromatin primes rapid transcriptional switching of cell-type-specific genes in yeast

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3342-3356

  DeSimone, Alec M ^a   Laney, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE GCN5; HISTONE H3; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SSN6 PROTEIN; TUP1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOSS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; YEAST;

CHROMATIN; CO-REPRESSOR PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77953462766     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01450-09     Document Type: Article

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