Surface receptors and transporters of Trypanosoma brucei

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue , 1998, Pages 745-778

  Borst, P ^a   Fairlamb, A H ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adenylate guanylate cyclase; Antigenic variation; Flagellar pocket; Glucose transporter; Transferrin receptors

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; FLAGELLA; GLUCOSE; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, LIPOPROTEIN; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0031726222     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.52.1.745     Document Type: Review

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