Role of histone modifications and early termination in pervasive transcription and antisense-mediated gene silencing in yeast

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4348-4362

  Castelnuovo, Manuele ^a   Zaugg, Judith B ^b,e   Guffanti, Elisa ^a   Maffioletti, Andrea ^a   Camblong, Jurgi ^a   Xu, Zhenyu ^c   Clauder Münster, Sandra ^c   Steinmetz, Lars M ^c,d,e   Luscombe, Nicholas M ^b,f,g,h   Stutz, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^h OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HDA1 PROTEIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; NAB3 PROTEIN; NRD1 PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RPD3 PROTEIN; RRP6 PROTEIN; SEN1 PROTEIN; SET1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; YEAST;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; PROTON-PHOSPHATE SYMPORTERS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84898982878     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku100     Document Type: Article

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