Involvement of a short interspersed element in epigenetic transcriptional silencing of the amoebapore gene in Entamoeba histolytica

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1775-1784

  Anbar, Michael ^a   Bracha, Rivka ^a   Nuchamowitz, Yael ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Florentin, Anat ^a   Mirelman, David ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOEBAPORE PROTEINS, PROTOZOAN; CYTOSINE; HISTONE; ION CHANNEL; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; REPORTER GENE; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CYTOSINE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; HISTONES; ION CHANNELS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA;

EID: 27744501724     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.4.11.1775-1784.2005     Document Type: Article

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