A cascade of DNA-binding proteins for sexual commitment and development in Plasmodium

Nature

Volumn 507, Issue 7491, 2014, Pages 253-257

  Sinha, Abhinav ^a   Hughes, Katie R ^a   Modrzynska, Katarzyna K ^b   Otto, Thomas D ^b   Pfander, Claudia ^b   Dickens, Nicholas J ^a   Religa, Agnieszka A ^a   Bushell, Ellen ^b   Graham, Anne L ^a   Cameron, Rachael ^a   Kafsack, Bjorn F C ^c   Williams, April E ^c   Llinás, Manuel ^c,d   Berriman, Matthew ^b   Billker, Oliver ^b   Waters, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

BLOOD; CHEMICAL BINDING; DNA; MALARIA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOSQUITO; PARASITE TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APICOMPLEXA; APICOMPLEXA AP2 GENE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DOWN REGULATION; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOCYTOGENESIS; GAMETOGENESIS; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PBAP2 G GENE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPOROZOITE; WILD TYPE;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTISTA; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; MALARIA; MALE; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84896315251     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12970     Document Type: Article

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