Knockdown of selenocysteine-specific elongation factor in Amblyomma maculatum alters the pathogen burden of Rickettsia parkeri with epigenetic control by the Sin3 histone deacetylase corepressor complex

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Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Adamson, Steven W ^a   Browning, Rebecca E ^a   Budachetri, Khemraj ^a   Ribeiro, José M C ^b   Karim, Shahid ^a  

^a University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; ELONGATION FACTOR; EXTRACELLULAR SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOCYSTEINE ELONGATION FACTOR; SELENOPROTEIN; SELENOPROTEIN M; SELENOPROTEIN O; SELENOPROTEIN S; SELENOPROTEIN T; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RNA INTERFERENCE; SELENOCYSTEINE ELONGATION FACTOR GENE; SELENOPROTEIN M GENE; SELENOPROTEIN O GENE; SELENOPROTEIN S GENE; SELENOPROTEIN T GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICK ENGORGEMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; VECTOR PATHOGEN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIN3 HISTONE DEACETYLASE AND COREPRESSOR COMPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84896705986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082012     Document Type: Article

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