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Separation of origin recognition complex functions by cross-species complementation.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 8 Dec 1995
Ehrenhofer-Murray A E, Gossen M, Pak D T, Botchan M R, Rine J
Abstract excerpt
Transcriptional silencing at the HMRa locus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae requires the function of the origin recognition complex (ORC), the replication initiator of yeast. Expression of a Drosophila melanogaster Orc2 complementary DNA in the yeast orc2-1 strain, which is defective for replication and silencing, complemented the silencing defect but not the replication defect; this result indicated that the...
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