MCM-BP Is Required for Repression of Life-Cycle Specific Genes Transcribed by RNA Polymerase I in the Mammalian Infectious Form of Trypanosoma brucei

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Kim, Hee Sook ^a   Park, Sung Hee ^b   Günzl, Arthur ^b   Cross, George A M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; HELICASE; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 4; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 7; PROTEIN MCM BP; PROTEIN MCM8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOSS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; LOS1 GENE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TELOMERE; TRANSPOSON; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE I; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 84874544393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057001     Document Type: Article

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