The PfAlba1 RNA-binding protein is an important regulator of translational timing in Plasmodium falciparum blood stages

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Vembar, Shruthi Sridhar ^a,b,c   Macpherson, Cameron Ross ^a,b,c   Sismeiro, Odile ^a   Coppée, Jean Yves ^a   Scherf, Artur ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIB PFALBA1; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL CYCLE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DOWN REGULATION; ERYTHROCYTE; GROWTH INHIBITION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCHIZONT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOZOITE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TROPHOZOITES;

EID: 84942516676     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0771-5     Document Type: Article

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