The variant surface glycoprotein as a tool for adaptation in African trypanosomes

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 930-937

  Pays, Etienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

African trypanosomes; Antigenic variation; Apolipoprotein L I; Innate immunity; Parasite adaptation; Review; Serum resistance associated protein; Trypanosoma brucei; Variant surface glycoprotein

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN L I; PROTEIN; PROTEIN HPR; RNA; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; PSEUDOGENE; SHORT SURVEY; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFRICA; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA;

BOS TAURUS; MAMMALIA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE;

EID: 33646054277     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2005.10.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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