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Silencing and heritable domains of gene expression.
Annual review of cell and developmental biology - 1 Jan 1995
Loo S, Rine J
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Silencing is a process that assembles particular regions of eukaryotic chromosomes into transcriptionally inactive chromatin structures. Silencing involves specialized regulatory sites known as silencers and a combination of general DNA-binding proteins and proteins dedicated to silencing. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, these proteins include transcription factors and the origin recognition complex (ORC)....
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