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Involvement of the checkpoint protein Mec1p in silencing of gene expression at telomeres in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Apr 2000
Craven R J, Petes T D
Abstract excerpt
Yeast strains with a mutation in the MEC1 gene are deficient in the cellular checkpoint response to DNA-damaging agents and have short telomeres (K. B. Ritchie, J. C. Mallory, and T. D. Petes, Mol. Cell. Biol. 19:6065-6075, 1999; T. A. Weinert, G. L. Kiser, and L. H. Hartwell, Genes Dev. 8:652-665, 1994). In wild-type yeast cells, genes inserted near the telomeres are transcriptionally silenced (D. E....
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