Common themes in mechanisms of gene silencing

被引:228
作者
Moazed, D [1 ]
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[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dept Cell Biol, Boston, MA 02115 USA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
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10.1016/S1097-2765(01)00340-9
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The assembly of DNA into regions of inaccessible chromatin, called silent chromatin, is involved in the regulation of gene expression and maintenance of chromosome stability in eukaryotes. Recent studies on Sir2-containing silencing complexes in budding yeast and HP1- and Swi6-containing silencing complexes in metazoans and fission yeast suggest a common mechanism for the assembly of these domains, which involves the physical coupling of histone modifying enzymes to histone binding proteins.
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