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Histone chaperone Spt16p is required for heterochromatin mediated silencing in budding yeast

  • Xiaowei Yan 1,2 ,
  • Jiayi Yang 1 ,
  • Jiawei Xu 1 ,
  • Jianxun Feng , 1 ,
  • Qing Li , 1
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  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2. Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158-2517, USA

Published date: 11 Jul 2018

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Xiaowei Yan , Jiayi Yang , Jiawei Xu , Jianxun Feng , Qing Li . Histone chaperone Spt16p is required for heterochromatin mediated silencing in budding yeast[J]. Protein & Cell, 2018 , 9(7) : 652 -658 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-017-0485-4

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