Glutamic acid/alanine-rich protein from Trypanosoma congolense is the functional equivalent of 'EP' procyclin from Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 151-156

  Ruepp, Stefan ^a   Kurath, Ursula ^a   Kunz Renggli, Christina ^b   Brun, Reto ^b   Roditi, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glycolipid anchor; Procyclin; Surface glycoprotein; Trypanosome; Tsetse fly

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; EPITOPE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCOLIPID; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EPIMASTIGOTE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

ANIMALIA; GLOSSINA (PROPER); TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

EID: 0032904469     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00159-5     Document Type: Article

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