Regional centromeres in the yeast Candida lusitaniae lack pericentromeric heterochromatin

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

Volumn 112, Issue 39, 2015, Pages 12139-12144

  Kapoor, Shivali ^a   Zhu, Lisha ^b   Froyd, Cara ^c,e   Liu, Tao ^b   Rusche, Laura N ^a,c   Rine, Jasper ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida; Centromere; CSE4; Heterochromatin; Sir2

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; HISTONE; SIRTUIN; HETEROCHROMATIN;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CLAVISPORA LUSITANIAE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOLOGY; CANDIDA; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84942856875     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508749112     Document Type: Article

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