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Spreading of transcriptional repressor SIR3 from telomeric heterochromatin.
Nature - 5 Sept 1996
Hecht A, Strahl-Bolsinger S, Grunstein M
Abstract excerpt
Telomeric genes and the HM loci in saccharomyces cerevisiae are transcriptionally repressed and adopt a heterochromatin-like structure. The trans-acting factors RAP1, SIR3 and SIR4 are required for telomeric and HM silencing, and are thought to be chromosomal, but how they contribute to histone-dependent repression of adjacent chromatin is unclear. SIR3 suppresses silencing defects in histones, is limiting for...
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