Sequence divergence in a family of variant surface glycoprotein genes from trypanosomes: Coding region hypervariability and downstream recombinogenic repeats

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 500-511

  Field, Mark C ^a,b   Boothroyd, John C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Multigene family; Recombination; Trypanosome; Variant surface glycoprotein

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0029938305     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02352280     Document Type: Article

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