Ex vivo and in vitro identification of a consensus promoter for VSG genes expressed by metacyclic-stage trypanosomes in the tsetse fly

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1000-1009

  Ginger, Michael L ^a,c   Blundell, Patricia A ^a   Lewis, Alyson M ^a   Browitt, Alison ^a   Günzl, Arthur ^b   Barry, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; RNA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL SEPARATION; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TSETSE FLIES; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALIA; GLOSSINA (PROPER); PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037884882     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.1.6.1000-1009.2002     Document Type: Article

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