Characterization and gene expression analysis of the cir multi-gene family of plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi (AS)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lawton, Jennifer ^a   Brugat, Thibaut ^a   Yan, Yam X ^b   Reid, Adam J ^c   Böhme, Ulrike ^c   Otto, Thomas D ^c   Pain, Arnab ^c,d   Jackson, Andrew ^c   Berriman, Matthew ^c   Cunningham, Deirdre ^a   Preiser, Peter ^b   Langhorne, Jean ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CIR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CIR GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNE EVASION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

MUS; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RODENTIA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84858995471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-125     Document Type: Article

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