Regulating repression: Roles for the Sir4 N-terminus in linker DNA protection and stabilization of epigenetic states

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kueng, Stephanie ^a   Tsai Pflugfelder, Monika ^a   Oppikofer, Mariano ^a,b   Ferreira, Helder C ^a   Roberts, Emma ^a,c   Tsai, Chinyen ^a   Roloff, Tim Christoph ^a   Sack, Ragna ^a   Gasser, Susan M ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SIR3 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SIR4 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; YKU70 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHROMATIN; FUNGAL GENE; G2 PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

CHROMATIN; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; G2 PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MITOSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84863714434     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002727     Document Type: Article

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