Gene conversions mediating antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei can occur in variant surface glycoprotein expression sites lacking 70-base-pair repeat sequences

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 833-843

  Mcculloch, Richard ^a   Rudenko, Gloria ^a   Borst, Piet ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILENT GENE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0031053120     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.2.833     Document Type: Article

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