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Transcriptional Regulation

Differential Effects of Chromatin and Gcn4 on the 50-Fold Range of Expression among Individual Yeast Ty1 Retrotransposons

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Pages 2078-2088 | Received 15 Nov 2001, Accepted 07 Jan 2002, Published online: 28 Mar 2023

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