Transcription of 'inactive' expression sites in African trypanosomes leads to expression of multiple transferrin receptor RNAs in bloodstream forms

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 101, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 81-94

  Ansorge, Iris ^a   Steverding, Dietmar ^b   Melville, Sara ^c   Hartmann, Claudia ^a   Clayton, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Hygiene Institut   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expression site associated genes; Expression sites; Transferrin receptor; Variant surface glycoprotein

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0033062624     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00060-2     Document Type: Article

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