The nucleosome landscape of Plasmodium falciparum reveals chromatin architecture and dynamics of regulatory sequences

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2110-2124

  Kensche, Philip Reiner ^a,c   Hoeijmakers, Wieteke Anna Maria ^a   Toenhake, Christa Geeke ^a   Bras, Maaike ^a   Chappell, Lia ^b   Berriman, Matthew ^b   Bártfai, Richárd ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RNA SPLICING;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING SITE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INTRON; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION;

BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ERYTHROCYTES; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; NUCLEOSOMES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA SPLICE SITES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84963819794     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1214     Document Type: Article

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