Dicer associates with chromatin to repress genome activity in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-100

  Woolcock, Katrina J ^a   Gaidatzis, Dimos ^a   Punga, Tanel ^a   Bühler, Marc ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; DNA ADENINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN DCR1; PROTEIN RDP1; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CONSTITUTIVE HETEROCHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUCHROMATIN; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RNA GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 78650966598     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1935     Document Type: Article

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