Heterochromatin formation in bistable chromatin domains controls the epigenetic repression of clonally variant Plasmodium falciparum genes linked to erythrocyte invasion

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 391-406

  Crowley, Valerie M ^a   Rovira Graells, Núria ^a   de Pouplana, Lluís Ribas ^a,b   Cortés, Alfred ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; NUCLEASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CLAG3.1 GENE; CLAG3.2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBA 140 GENE; EPIGENETICS; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHISTA GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

CARRIER PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 79953867796     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07574.x     Document Type: Article

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