title: Chromatin: a sticky silence.
abstract: Recent findings indicate that heterochromatin serves as a molecular sink for factors involved in chromatin-mediated repression of gene expression; long-range interactions that position a euchromatic gene near a heterochromatin domain influence its susceptibility to transcriptional silencing.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, UMR49 CNRS/ENS, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marcand
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Gasser
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gilson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002843:Chromatin / Q000502:physiology*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology*; D006570:Heterochromatin / Q000502:physiology; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics; D016615:Telomere; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D006570:Heterochromatin; D015534:Trans-Activators