Genome-wide profiling of chromosome interactions in Plasmodium falciparum characterizes nuclear architecture and reconfigurations associated with antigenic variation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 519-537

  Lemieux, Jacob E ^a,b   Kyes, Sue A ^a   Otto, Thomas D ^c   Feller, Avi I ^d   Eastman, Richard T ^b   Pinches, Robert A ^a   Berriman, Matthew ^c   Su, Xin zhuan ^b   Newbold, Chris I ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84887084790     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12381     Document Type: Article

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