Functions of protosilencers in the formation and maintenance of heterochromatin in saccharomyces cerevisiae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Xinmin ^a,b   Yu, Qun ^a   Olsen, Lars ^a   Bi, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABF1 PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; RAP1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST CELL;

BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84861204939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037092     Document Type: Article

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