Entamoeba histolytica: Expression and DNA binding of CCAAT/ enhancer-binding proteins are regulated through the cell cycle

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 82-87

  Marchat, Laurence A ^a   Pezet Valdez, Marisol ^a   López Camarillo, César ^a   Orozco, Esther ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; COLCHICINE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CYTOPLASM; DNA BINDING; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TROPHOZOITE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; DENSITOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; COLCHICINE; DENSITOMETRY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

EID: 0038824668     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(03)00064-X     Document Type: Article

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