H2A.Z and H2B.Z double-variant nucleosomes define intergenic regions and dynamically occupy var gene promoters in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1167-1182

  Petter, Michaela ^a   Selvarajah, Shamista A ^a   Lee, Chin Chin ^a   Chin, Wai Hoe ^b   Gupta, Archna P ^b   Bozdech, Zbynek ^b   Brown, Graham V ^a   Duffy, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2AZ; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H2BZ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; ERYTHROCYTE; EUCHROMATIN; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; VAR GENE;

DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; NUCLEOSOMES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

APICOMPLEXA; EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84874986296     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12154     Document Type: Article

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