Chromatin modifications, epigenetics, and how protozoan parasites regulate their lives

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 202-213

  Croken, Matthew M ^a   Nardelli, Sheila C ^a   Kim, Kami ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE DEACETYLASE;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOSYLATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EPIGENOMICS; EUKARYOTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; PARASITES;

EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84860276378     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2012.02.009     Document Type: Review

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