DNA organization by the apicoplast-targeted bacterial histone-like protein of Plasmodium falciparum

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5061-5073

  Ram, E V S Raghu ^a   Naik, Rangeetha ^b   Ganguli, Munia ^b   Habib, Saman ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CONCATENATED DNA; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN;

APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLESIOMORPHY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA, CONCATENATED; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALGAE; APICOMPLEXA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 50849097018     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn483     Document Type: Article

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