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Synthetic Lethal Screens Identify Gene Silencing Processes in Yeast and Implicate the Acetylated Amino Terminus of Sir3 in Recognition of the Nucleosome Core

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Pages 3861-3872 | Received 14 Nov 2007, Accepted 19 Mar 2008, Published online: 27 Mar 2023

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