Mediator Directs Co-transcriptional Heterochromatin Assembly by RNA Interference-Dependent and -Independent Pathways

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Oya, Eriko ^a   Kato, Hiroaki ^b,c   Chikashige, Yuji ^d   Tsutsumi, Chihiro ^d   Hiraoka, Yasushi ^e   Murakami, Yota ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; MEDIATOR COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE METHYLATION; MEDIATOR; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884666430     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003677     Document Type: Article

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