Epigenetic control of the variable expression of a Plasmodium falciparum receptor protein for erythrocyte invasion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2224-2229

  Jiang, Lubin ^a   López Barragán, María José ^a   Jiang, Hongying ^a   Mu, Jianbing ^a   Gaur, Deepak ^a   Zhao, Keji ^b   Felsenfeld, Gary ^c   Miller, Louis H ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetic mark; Histone modification; Nucleosome

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN DD2; PROTEIN RH4; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; SIALIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HISTONES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METHYLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PSEUDOGENES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VIRULENCE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 76649108268     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913396107     Document Type: Article

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