Sir2a regulates rDNA transcription and multiplication rate in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mancio Silva, Liliana ^a,b   Lopez Rubio, Jose Juan ^a,b   Claes, Aurélie ^a,b   Scherf, Artur ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; SIRTUIN 2; SIRTUIN 2A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DISEASE CONTROL; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; MALARIA; PARASITE; PROTOZOAN; RESEARCH WORK; RNA; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EPIGENETICS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA SYNTHESIS; TELOMERE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ERYTHROCYTES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEROZOITES; MUTATION; PARASITES; PLASMIDS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84874583928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2539     Document Type: Article

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