Toxoplasma gondii sequesters centromeres to a specific nuclear region throughout the cell cycle

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

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3767-3772

  Brooks, Carrie F ^a   Francia, Maria E ^a   Gissot, Mathieu ^b,c   Croken, Matthew M ^b   Kim, Kami ^b   Striepen, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Histone; Mitosis

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL HYBRIDIZATION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CENTROCONE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

CELL CYCLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; ETOPOSIDE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYSINE; METHYLATION; MITOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOXOPLASMA;

APICOMPLEXA; EUKARYOTA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 79952759696     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006741108     Document Type: Article

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