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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Wu CS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3033385 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PLoS genetics 20110203 2
The protein complex known as cohesin binds pericentric regions and other sites of eukaryotic genomes to mediate cohesion of sister chromatids. In budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, cohesin also binds silent chromatin, a repressive chromatin structure that functionally resembles heterochromatin of higher eukaryotes. We developed a protein-targeting assay to investigate the mechanistic basis for cohesion of silent chromatin domains. Individual silencing factors were tethered to sites where pa ...[more]