The VSG expression sites of Trypanosoma brucei: Multipurpose tools for the adaptation of the parasite to mammalian hosts

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-16

  Pays, Etienne ^a   Lips, Stéphane ^a   Nolan, Derek ^a   Vanhamme, Luc ^a   Pérez Morga, David ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Parasite adaptation; Polycistronic transcription; Surface receptors; Trypanosoma brucei; Variant surface glycoprotein

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; BLOOD FLOW; CELL CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH REGULATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0035946414     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00242-0     Document Type: Review

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