Genomic organization and promoter analysis of the Trichomonas vaginalis core histone gene families

Parasitology International

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-34

  Cong, Peikuan ^a,b   Luo, Yingfeng ^a,b   Bao, Weidong ^b   Hu, Songnian ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

Author keywords

Core histone gene; Motif; Transcriptional regulation mechanism; Trichomonas vaginalis

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; HISTONE;

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 76349086445     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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