Clustering of dispersed ribosomal DNA and its role in gene regulation and chromosome-end associations in malaria parasites

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

Volumn 107, Issue 34, 2010, Pages 15117-15122

  Mancio Silva, Liliana ^a,b,c   Zhang, Qingfeng ^a,b   Scheidig Benatar, Christine ^a,b   Scherf, Artur ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Nucleolus; Nucleus; Telomeres; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; RIBOSOME DNA; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MALARIA CONTROL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77957011313     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001045107     Document Type: Article

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