Telomere exchange can be an important mechanism of variant surface glycoprotein gene switching in Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-75

  Rudenko, Gloria ^a   McCulloch, Richard ^a   Dirks Mulder, Anita ^a   Borst, Piet ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Expression site; Telomere exchange; Trypanosoma brucei; Variant Surface Glycoprotein

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0030249772     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02669-2     Document Type: Article

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