Nascent RNA sequencing reveals mechanisms of gene regulation in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2017, Pages 7825-7840

  Lu, Xueqing Maggie ^a   Batugedara, Gayani ^a   Lee, Michael ^a,c   Prudhomme, Jacques ^a   Bunnik, Evelien M ^a,b   Le Roch, Karine G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

^c CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA REPLICATION; EXOME; EXON; GAMETOCYTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SCHIZONT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOZOITE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85026452613     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx464     Document Type: Article

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