Candida albicans repetitive elements display epigenetic diversity and plasticity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Freire Benéitez, Verónica ^a   Price, R Jordan ^a   Tarrant, Daniel ^a   Berman, Judith ^b   Buscaino, Alessia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE; RIBOSOME DNA; SIRTUIN;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE; TEMPERATURE;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIRTUINS; TELOMERE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84960947592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22989     Document Type: Article

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