A family of stage-specific alanine-rich proteins on the surface of epimastigote forms of Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 218-228

  Urwyler, Simon ^a,c   Studer, Erwin ^a   Renggli, Christina Kunz ^b   Roditi, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOODSTREAM ALANINE RICH PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EPIMASTIGOTE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; RAT; REPORTER GENE; SALIVARY GLAND; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TSETSE FLIES; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 33845705717     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05492.x     Document Type: Article

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