Noncoding RNAs as emerging regulators of Plasmodium falciparum virulence gene expression

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 153-161

  Vembar, Shruthi S ^a,b   Scherf, Artur ^a,b   Siegel, T Nicolai ^c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ENZYME BINDING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; TELOMERE; ADAPTATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84904246994     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.06.013     Document Type: Review

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