3D nuclear architecture reveals coupled cell cycle dynamics of chromatin and nuclear pores in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 967-977

  Weiner, Allon ^b   Dahan Pasternak, Noa ^a   Shimoni, Eyal ^c   Shinder, Vera ^c   von Huth, Palle ^c   Elbaum, Michael ^b   Dzikowski, Ron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Department of Materials and Interfaces ^*  (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EUCHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEOSOME; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZONT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PORE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 79959278736     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2011.01592.x     Document Type: Article

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