Identification and molecular characterization of an Alba-family protein from human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1174-1190

  Goyal, Manish ^a   Alam, Athar ^a   Iqbal, Mohd Shameel ^a   Dey, Sumanta ^a   Bindu, Samik ^a   Pal, Chinmay ^a   Banerjee, Anindyajit ^a   Chakrabarti, Saikat ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Uday ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM ACETYLATION LOWERS BINDING AFFINITY FAMILY PROTEIN 3; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM SIR2A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; LYSINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIRTUIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84856833535     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr821     Document Type: Article

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