Differential regulation of ESAG transcripts in Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-42

  Vanhamme, Luc ^a   Postiaux, Stéphanie ^a   Poelvoorde, Philippe ^a   Pays, Etienne ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Posttranscriptional regulation; RNA processing; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032781635     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00080-8     Document Type: Article

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