Polysome profiling reveals translational control of gene expression in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Bunnik, Evelien M ^a   Chung, Duk Won D ^a   Hamilton, Michael ^a   Ponts, Nadia ^a,b   Saraf, Anita ^c   Prudhomme, Jacques ^a   Florens, Laurence ^c   Le Roch, Karine G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYSOME; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; STEADY STATE; STOP CODON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VAR GENE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYRIBOSOMES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84887911820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-11-r128     Document Type: Article

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