Epigenetic mechanisms are involved in the control of Giardia lamblia antigenic variation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1533-1542

  Kulakova, Liudmila ^a,c   Singer, Steven M ^b   Conrad, John ^a   Nash, Theodore E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HEMAGGLUTININ; HISTONE; LYSINE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ACETYLATION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOME; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33748513501     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05345.x     Document Type: Article

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