Telomere structure and function in trypanosomes: A proposal

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-75

  Dreesen, Oliver ^a   Cross, George A M ^a   Li, Bibo ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN E; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN MYB; PROTOZOAL DNA; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAP1 PROTEIN; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845605494     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1577     Document Type: Article

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