Autoregulation of convergent RNAi genes in fission yeast

Genes and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 556-568

  Gullerova, Monika ^a   Moazed, Danesh ^b   Proudfoot, Nick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Convergent genes; Fission yeast; Heterochromatin; RNAi genes

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AGO1 GENE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CLR4 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DCR1 GENE; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST;

CELL CYCLE; CENTROMERE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE ORDER; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 79952592361     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.618611     Document Type: Article

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