Plasmodium falciparum centromeres display a unique epigenetic makeup and cluster prior to and during schizogony

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1391-1401

  Hoeijmakers, Wieteke A M ^a   Flueck, Christian ^b,c,e   Françoijs, Kees Jan ^a   Smits, Arne H ^a,f   Wetzel, Johanna ^b,c   Volz, Jennifer C ^d,g   Cowman, Alan F ^d   Voss, Till ^b,c   Stunnenberg, Hendrik G ^a   Bártfai, Richárd ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^g WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; PROTEIN VARIANT; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL INVASION; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; EPIGENETICS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOGONY;

CENTROMERE; CYTOKINESIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84865313775     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2012.01803.x     Document Type: Article

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