Boundaries of transcriptionally silent chromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 73-81

  Sun, Jing Qian ^a   Hatanaka, Akira ^a   Oki, Masaya ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boundary; Euchromatin and heterochromatin; Gene silencing; Histone modification; S. cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; EUCHROMATIN; FUNGAL GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HML GENE; HMR GENE; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENCER ELEMENT; TELOMERE;

CHROMATIN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 79959282212     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: 18805779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.86.73     Document Type: Article

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