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1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA. kwd2001@med.cornell.edu
Cell Host & Microbe
|February 17, 2009
Abstract:
Gene families in malaria parasites that encode hypervariable surface antigens display mutually exclusive expression that is controlled epigenetically. In this issue, Lopez-Rubio et al. (2009) show that the histone mark H3K9me3 is specifically associated with regulation of expression of these gene families within repressive centers located at the nuclear periphery.
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