Heterochromatin structure: Lessons from the budding yeast

IUBMB Life

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 657-666

  Bi, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterochromatin; Higher order chromatin structure; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sir proteins; Transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; HETEROCHROMATIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; EPIGENETICS; EUCHROMATIN; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; YEAST; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 84915808131     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.1322     Document Type: Review

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