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Mapping of H3, H3K4me3, H3K9me3, and H3K9ac on mixed asexual stages of P. falciparum

ABSTRACT: Epigenome profiling has led to the paradigm that promoters of active genes are decorated with H3K4me3 and H3K9ac marks. Data revealed an extensively euchromatic epigenome with heterochromatin restricted to variant surface antigen gene families (VSA) and a number of genes hitherto unlinked to VSA. The vast majority of the genome shows an unexpected pattern of enrichment of H3K4me3 and H3K9ac at intergenic regions and depletion at genes.

ORGANISM(S): Plasmodium falciparum

PROVIDER: GSE15728 | GEO | 2009/05/18

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA123001

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Mapping of H3, H3K4me3, H3K9me3, and H3K9ac on mixed asexual stages of P. falciparum

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