Var gene promoter activation in clonal plasmodium falciparum isolates follows a hierarchy and suggests a conserved switching program that is independent of genetic background

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1620-1631

  Enderes, Corinna ^a   Kombila, Davy ^b   Dal Bianco, Matthias ^a   Dzikowski, Ron ^c   Kremsner, Peter ^a,b   Frank, Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Medical Research Unit Albert Schweitzer Hospital   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR UPSC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENICS; VAR GENE;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80054758809     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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