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Effects of overexpression of EhMyb-dr on transcription in Entamoeba histolytica

ABSTRACT: A myb domain containing protein of the SHAQKY family, EhMyb-dr, was overexpressed in E. histolytica trophozoites, and effects on transcription were measured. Two arrays of trophozoites expressing Myc tagged EhMyb-dr were compared to two arrays performed on wild type trophozoites. The effects of transfection and drug were controlled for by including data from trophozoites expressing irrelevant plasmids, and grown in the same level of G418. All parasites were of strain HM-1:IMSS

ORGANISM(S): Entamoeba histolytica

SUBMITTER: Gretchen Ehrenkaufer

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-13023 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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A developmentally regulated Myb domain protein regulates expression of a subset of stage-specific genes in Entamoeba histolytica.

Ehrenkaufer Gretchen M GM Hackney Jason A JA Singh Upinder U

Cellular microbiology 20090222 6

Conversion between a cyst and trophozoite stage is essential to disease transmission and pathogenesis in the parasitic protist Entamoeba histolytica. A transcriptomic analysis of E. histolytica cysts and trophozoites has recently been accomplished, but the molecular basis of the regulation of encystation is not known. We have now identified a developmentally regulated Myb protein (belonging to the SHAQKY family of Myb proteins), which controls expression of a subset of amoebic stage-specific gen ...[more]

PMID: 19239479

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Effects of overexpression of EhMyb-dr on transcription in Entamoeba histolytica

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A developmentally regulated Myb domain protein regulates expression of a subset of stage-specific genes in Entamoeba histolytica.

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