Silencing Is Noisy: Population and Cell Level Noise in Telomere-Adjacent Genes Is Dependent on Telomere Position and Sir2

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Anderson, Matthew Z ^a   Gerstein, Aleeza C ^a,b   Wigen, Lauren ^a   Baller, Joshua A ^a   Berman, Judith ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE DEACETYLASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 2; CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIR2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SIRTUIN 2; URA3 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CELL LEVEL; CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE ADJACENT GENE EXPRESSION NOISE; URA3 GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEINS, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIRTUIN 2; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84905484557     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004436     Document Type: Article

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