Conservation of metacyclic variant surface glycoprotein expression sites among different trypanosome isolates

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-78

  Bringaud, Frédéric ^a   Biteau, Nicolas ^a   Donelson, John E ^b   Baltz, Théo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Expression site; Metacyclic VSG gene repertoire; Phylogeny; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense typing; Trypanosoma brucei group

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE;

EID: 0035094840     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00381-9     Document Type: Article

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