The sound of sexual commitment breaks the silencing of malaria parasites

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 509-510

  Alano, Pietro ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

AP2 transcription factors; Developmental commitment; Epigenetic silencing; Gametocyte differentiation; Malaria parasite transmission; Parasite antigenic variation

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NEUROSYPHILIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SHORT SURVEY; ANIMAL; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 84908151900     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2014.09.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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