Identification of a Novel and Unique Transcription Factor in the Intraerythrocytic Stage of Plasmodium falciparum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Komaki Yasuda, Kanako ^a   Okuwaki, Mitsuru ^b   Nagata, Kyosuke ^b   Kawazu, Shin ichiro ^c   Kano, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRX REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PF1 CYS PRX GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SCHIZONT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOZOITE;

CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84883526555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074701     Document Type: Article

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