Erasing the epigenetic memory and beginning to switch-the onset of antigenic switching of var genes in plasmodium falciparum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Fastman, Yair ^a   Noble, Robert ^b   Recker, Mario ^b   Dzikowski, Ron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SWITCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; LIVER; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MARKER GENE; MEROZOITE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PFEMP1 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VAR GENE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84858833435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034168     Document Type: Article

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