Heterochromatin silencing and locus repositioning linked to regulation of virulence genes in Plasmodium falciparum

Cell

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-24

  Duraisingh, Manoj T ^a   Voss, Till S ^a   Marty, Allison J ^a,b   Duffy, Michael F ^c   Good, Robert T ^a   Thompson, Jennifer K ^a   Freitas Jr , Lucio H ^d   Scherf, Artur ^d   Crabb, Brendan S ^a   Cowman, Alan F ^a  

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

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR 2 GENE; TELOMERE; TRANSGENE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 20144389848     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.01.036     Document Type: Article

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