Silencing sounds off.
Silent chromatin in budding yeast is propagated from one generation to the next, even though 'silenced' genes are occasionally expressed.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, United States.
Yu-Fan
YF
Chen
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, United States and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, United States marc.gartenberg@rutgers.edu.
Marc R
MR
Gartenberg
D002843:Chromatin / Q000235:genetics*; D020868:Gene Silencing; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*
D002843:Chromatin
S. cerevisiae; Sir2; Sir3; Sir4; bistability; chromosomes; epigenetics; genes; histone H3