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Triaging informative cis-regulatory elements for the combinatorial control of temporal gene expression during Plasmodium falciparum intraerythrocytic development

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, February 2015
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Title
Triaging informative cis-regulatory elements for the combinatorial control of temporal gene expression during Plasmodium falciparum intraerythrocytic development
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Parasites & Vectors, February 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13071-015-0701-0
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Karen Russell, Richard Emes, Paul Horrocks

Abstract

BackgroundOver 2700 genes are subject to stage-specific regulation during the intraerythrocytic development of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Bioinformatic analyses have identified a large number of over-represented motifs in the 5¿ flanking regions of these genes that may act as cis-acting factors in the promoter-based control of temporal expression. Triaging these lists to provide candidates most likely to play a role in regulating temporal expression is challenging, but important if we are to effectively design in vitro studies to validate this role.MethodsWe report here the application of a repeated search of variations of 5¿ flanking sequences from P. falciparum using the Finding Informative Regulatory Elements (FIRE) algorithm.ResultsOur approach repeatedly found a short-list of high scoring DNA motifs, for which cognate specific transcription factors were available, that appear to be typically associated with upregulation of mRNA accumulation during the first half of intraerythrocytic development.ConclusionsWe propose these cis-trans interactions may provide a combinatorial promoter-based control of gene expression to complement more global mechanisms of gene regulation that can account for temporal control during the second half of intraerythrocytic development.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 29 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 24%
Student > Master 5 17%
Researcher 4 14%
Professor 3 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 4 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 34%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 14%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 7%
Computer Science 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 21%
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#12,621,992
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#2,042
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#160,067
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Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#43
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