Silencing sounds off

• Main Authors: Yu-Fan Chen, Marc R Gartenberg
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2015-03-01
• Series: eLife
• Subjects: epigenetic; bistability; Sir2; Sir3; Sir4; histone H3
• Online Access: https://elifesciences.org/articles/06717
• ISSN: 2050-084X

Silent chromatin in budding yeast is propagated from one generation to the next, even though ‘silenced’ genes are occasionally expressed.