Toxoplasma gondii has two lineages of histones 2b (H2B) with different expression profiles

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-107

  Dalmasso, María C ^a   Echeverria, Pablo C ^a   Zappia, María P ^a   Hellman, Ulf ^b   Dubremetz, Jean François ^c   Angel, Sergio O ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Development; H2B; Histones; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2B;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOXOPLASMA;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33744735076     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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