Dare to challenge the silence?: Telomeric gene silencing revisited

Nucleus

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 513-516

  Yankulov, Krassimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA replication; Gene expression; Gene silencing; Nucleotide pool; Telomere position effect

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY FACTOR 1; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 10; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 5; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 84856866446     PISSN: 19491034     EISSN: 19491042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/nucl.2.6.17710     Document Type: Article

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