Design of a minimal silencer for the silent mating-type locus HML of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 7991-8000

  Weber, Jan M ^a   Ehrenhofer Murray, Ann E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; RAP1 PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 2; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 3; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 4; SUM1 PROTEIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER ELEMENT; SILENCER GENE;

BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC LOCI; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 78650501471     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq689     Document Type: Article

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