An auxiliary silencer and a boundary element maintain high levels of silencing proteins at HMR in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 113-127

  Lynch, Patrick J ^a   Rusche, Laura N ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN E; HETEROCHROMATIN I; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENDONUCLEASE; THREONINE TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER GENE; STEADY STATE; TELOMERE; ACETYLATION; BASE PAIRING; CHROMATIN; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; INSULATOR ELEMENT; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; SILENCER ELEMENT; TRANSPOSON;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ACETYLATION; BASE PAIRING; CHROMATIN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE SILENCING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC LOCI; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, TRANSFER, THR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

EID: 77956643394     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.113100     Document Type: Article

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