Transcription in the maintenance of centromere chromatin identity

Recent evidence has shown that transcription is permissible through the purportedly repressive centromere domain, and that this transcriptional activity is of functional consequence. The best-studied example is transcription of the pericentric DNA repeats in the generation of siRNAs required for per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chan, F. Lyn, Wong, Lee H.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526279/