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Kirchmaier AL and Rine J  (2006) Cell cycle requirements in assembling silent chromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 26(3):852-62

Abstract: The establishment of silencing at the silent mating-type locus, HMR, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae requires that yeast pass through S phase of the cell cycle, yet requires neither the initiation of DNA replication at the locus destined to become silenced nor the passage of a replication fork through that locus. We tested whether this S-phase requirement reflects a window within the cell cycle permissive for recruitment of Sir proteins to HMR. The S-phase-restricted event necessary for silencing occurred after recruitment of Sir proteins to HMR. Moreover, cells arrested in early S phase formed silent chromatin at HMR, provided HMR was on a nonreplicating template. Replicating templates required a later step for silencing. These results provide temporal resolution of discrete steps in the formation of silent chromatin and suggest that more than one cell cycle-regulated event may be necessary for the establishment of silencing.

Status: Published Type: Journal Article PubMed ID: 16428441

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