Malaria: Could its unusual epigenome be the weak spot?

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 781-784

  Salcedo Amaya, Adriana M ^a   Hoeijmakers, Wieteke A M ^a   Bártfai, Richard ^a   Stunnenberg, Hendrik G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Gene regulation; Histone modifications; Malaria; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 2;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; ERYTHROCYTE; EUCHROMATIN; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 77953812681     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2010.03.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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