Silencing motifs in the Clr2 protein from fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Steinhauf, Daniel ^a   Rodriguez, Alejandro ^a   Vlachakis, Dimitrios ^b   Virgo, Gordon ^a   Maksimov, Vladimir ^a   Kristell, Carolina ^a   Olsson, Ida ^a   Linder, Tomas ^c   Kossida, Sophia ^b   Bongcam Rudloff, Erik ^c   Bjerling, Pernilla ^a  

^a SCIENCE FOR LIFE LABORATORY   (Sweden)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN CLR2; PROTEIN CLR4; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CENTROMERE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84900302338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086948     Document Type: Article

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