The molecular biology of the SIR proteins
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- DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(01)00741-7
The molecular biology of the SIR proteins
Abstract
Silent or heritably repressed genes constitute the major fraction of genetic information in higher eukaryotic cells. Budding yeast has very little consecutively repressed DNA, but what exists has served as a paradigm for the molecular analysis of heterochromatin. The major structural constituents of repressed chromatin in yeast are the four core histones and three large chromatin factors called Silent information regulators 2, 3 and 4. How these components assemble DNA into a state that is refractory to transcription remains a mystery. Nonetheless, there have been many recent insights into their molecular structures. This review examines the impact of these results on our understanding of silencing function in budding yeast.
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