On the connection between RNAi and heterochromatin at centromeres

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2010, Pages 275-283

  Lejeune, E ^a   Bayne, E H ^a,b   Allshire, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EUCHROMATIN; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST; DNA HAIRPIN; HUMAN;

CENTROMERE; HETEROCHROMATIN; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 80052394068     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2010.75.024     Document Type: Article

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