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Other names published for SIR2: MAR1, YDL042C

SIR2 - Evolution (5)

ReferenceOther Genes Addressed
Levasseur A and Pontarotti P  (2011) The role of duplications in the evolution of genomes highlights the need for evolutionary-based approaches in comparative genomics. Biol Direct 6():11
Gallagher JE, et al.  (2009) Elaboration, diversification and regulation of the sir1 family of silencing proteins in Saccharomyces. Genetics 181(4):1477-91
Hickman MA and Rusche LN  (2009) The Sir2-Sum1 complex represses transcription using both promoter-specific and long-range mechanisms to regulate cell identity and sexual cycle in the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis. PLoS Genet 5(11):e1000710
Nishida H  (2009) Evolutionary conservation levels of subunits of histone-modifying protein complexes in fungi. Comp Funct Genomics379317
Hickman MA and Rusche LN  (2007) Substitution as a mechanism for genetic robustness: the duplicated deacetylases Hst1p and Sir2p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genet 3(8):e126