A major surface glycoprotein of Trypanosoma brucei is expressed transiently during development and can be regulated post-transcriptionally by glycerol or hypoxia

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 615-626

  Vassella, Erik ^a   Van Den Abbeele, Jan ^b   Bütikofer, Peter ^c   Renggli, Christina Kunz ^d   Furger, André ^a   Brun, Reto ^d   Roditi, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c Inst Biochem und Molekularbiologie   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3' UTR; Differentiation; EP procyclin; GPEET procyclin; RNA stability; Tsetse

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HYPOXIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TSETSE FLY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCEROL; GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TSETSE FLIES;

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

EID: 0034162783     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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