Broad analysis reveals a consistent pattern of var gene transcription in Plasmodium falciparum repeatedly selected for a defined adhesion phenotype

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 774-788

  Duffy, Michael F ^a   Byrne, Timothy J ^a   Elliott, Salenna R ^a   Wilson, Danny W ^a   Rogerson, Stephen J ^a   Beeson, James G ^b   Noviyanti, Rintis ^c   Brown, Graham V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c EIJKMAN INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDROITIN 4 SULFATE; HYALURONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALARIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VAR GENE; VAR2CSA GENE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL ADHESION; CHONDROITIN SULFATES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, DOMINANT; HYALURONIC ACID; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 17044371098     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04577.x     Document Type: Article

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