Selection for activation of a new variant surface glycoprotein gene expression site in Trypanosoma brucei can result in deletion of the old one

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-109

  Rudenko, Gloria ^a   Chaves, Inês ^a   Dirks Mulder, Anita ^a   Borst, Piet ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; DNA rearrangements; Expression site; Telomere; Variant surface glycoprotein

Indexed keywords

VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CINNAMATES; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HYGROMYCIN B; NEOMYCIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032168225     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00099-1     Document Type: Article

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