Identification of a cis-acting DNA-protein interaction implicated in singular var gene choice in Plasmodium falciparum

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1836-1848

  Brancucci, Nicolas M B ^a,b   Witmer, Kathrin ^a,b   Schmid, Christoph D ^a,b   Flueck, Christian ^a,b   Voss, Till S ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84869882030     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12004     Document Type: Article

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