Repression of polymerase I-mediated gene expression at Trypanosoma brucei telomeres

EMBO Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-99

  Glover, Lucy ^a   Horn, David ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Silencing; Trypanosome; Variant surface glycoprotein

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME REPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; INSECT; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE I; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 33646204183     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400575     Document Type: Article

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