Insulator-like pairing elements regulate silencing and mutually exclusive expression in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 52, 2012, Pages

  Avraham, Inbar ^a   Schreier, Jeremy ^a   Dzikowski, Ron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Allelic exclusion; Gene expression; PfEMP1

Indexed keywords

DNA; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACCURACY; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA STRAND; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSULATOR ELEMENT; INTRON; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEAR PROTEIN COMPLEX; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; INTRONS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PARASITES; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84871825481     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214572109     Document Type: Article

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