Trypanosoma brucei variant surface glycoprotein regulation involves coupled activation/inactivation and chromatin remodeling of expression sites

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2265-2272

  Navarro, Miguel ^a,b   Cross, George A M ^a   Wirtz, Elizabeth ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Chromatin accessibility; T7 RNA polymerase; Trypanosoma brucei; Variant surface glycoprotein

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0033561049     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.8.2265     Document Type: Article

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