Nucleosome landscape and control of transcription in the human malaria parasite

Genome Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 228-238

  Ponts, Nadia ^a   Harris, Elena Y ^b   Prudhomme, Jacques ^a   Wick, Ivan ^c   Eckhardt Ludka, Colleen ^c   Hicks, Glenn R ^a   Hardiman, Gary ^c,d   Lonardi, Stefano ^b   Le Roch, Karine G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; DNA; FORMALDEHYDE; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRULENCE;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; NUCLEOSOMES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 75649102519     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.101063.109     Document Type: Article

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