Kinetochore assembly and heterochromatin formation occur autonomously in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1903-1908

  Brown, William R A ^a,c   Thomas, Geraint ^a   Lee, Nicholas C O ^a   Blythe, Martin ^a   Liti, Gianni ^a   Warringer, Jonas ^b   Loose, Matthew W ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Epigenesis; Microbial diversity; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CENTROMERE PROTEIN C; COHESIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; TELOMERE;

EPIGENESIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; YEAST;

DNA, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; KINETOCHORES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TELOMERE;

EID: 84893518001     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216934111     Document Type: Article

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