H2A.Z/H2B.Z double-variant nucleosomes inhabit the AT-rich promoter regions of the Plasmodium falciparum genome

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1061-1073

  Hoeijmakers, Wieteke A M ^a   Salcedo Amaya, Adriana M ^a   Smits, Arne H ^a,d   Françoijs, Kees Jan ^a   Treeck, Moritz ^b,e   Gilberger, Tim Wolf ^b,c   Stunnenberg, Hendrik G ^a   Bártfai, Richárd ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2AZ; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H2B Z; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTONE H2AZ GENE; HISTONE H2B Z GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84874203000     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12151     Document Type: Article

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