A decade of epigenetic research in Toxoplasma gondii

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Dixon, Stacy E ^a   Stilger, Krista L ^a   Elias, Eliana V ^a   Naguleswaran, Arunasalam ^a   Sullivan, William J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Chromatin; Differentiation; Histone; Parasite; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE H2AX; HISTONE H2AZ; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTAMINE KINASE; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME E2; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE;

APICOMPLEXA; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

APICOMPLEXA; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 77953812533     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.05.001     Document Type: Review

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