Identification of mutant versions of the Spt16 histone chaperone that are defective for transcription-coupled nucleosome occupancy in saccharomyces cerevisiae

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 555-567

  Hainer, Sarah J ^a   Charsar, Brittany A ^a   Cohen, Shayna B ^a   Martens, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; FACT; Intergenic DNA; Spt16; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876211475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.002451     Document Type: Article

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