DNA rearrangements associated with multiple consecutive directed antigenic switches in Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3615-3625

  Navarro, Miguel ^a   Cross, George A M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC G 418; PHLEOMYCIN; PROTOZOAL DNA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLONE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SWITCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SILENT GENE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0029951447     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.7.3615     Document Type: Article

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