Genetic recombination: Sex-change operations in yeast
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The 'directionality' of mating-type switching in building yeast is determined by mechanisms that regulate genetic recombination along the whole left arm of chromosome III. In MATa cells, a cis-acting 'recombinational enhancer' activates this entire region, while in MATalpha cells the enhancer is turned off by the alpha2 repressor.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997