Chromatin modifications: Implications in the regulation of gene expression in Toxoplasma gondii

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 413-423

  Bougdour, Alexandre ^a   Braun, Laurence ^a   Cannella, Dominique ^a   Hakimi, Mohamed Ali ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE MODIFYING ENZYME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ACETYLATION; APICOMPLEXA; CATALYSIS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; DIMERIZATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TOXOPLASMA;

APICOMPLEXA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 77953807039     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2010.01446.x     Document Type: Review

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