Nuclear organisation and RNAi in fission yeast

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 372-377

  Woolcock, Katrina J ^a,b   Bühler, Marc ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOPORIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AGGRESOME; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; CYTOPLASM; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EUCHROMATIN; EUKARYOTE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LAMINA; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEOLUS; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPINDLE POLE BODY; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; EUKARYOTA; HETEROCHROMATIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84879195874     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2013.02.004     Document Type: Review

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