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Targeting of SIR1 protein establishes transcriptional silencing at HM loci and telomeres in yeast.
Cell - 5 Nov 1993
Chien C T, Buck S, Sternglanz R, Shore D
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies suggest that the yeast SIR1 protein is involved in the establishment of transcriptional silencing at the HM mating-type loci. Here we show that a GAL4 DNA-binding domain-SIR1 hybrid protein (GBD-SIR1), when targeted to an HMR locus containing GAL4-binding sites (UASG), can establish silencing and bypass the requirement for the silencer element HMR-E. Silencing mediated by GBD-SIR1 requires the...
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