Trypanosoma brucei BRCA2 acts in antigenic variation and has undergone a recent expansion in BRC repeat number that is important during homologous recombination

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1237-1251

  Hartley, Claire L ^a   McCulloch, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA2 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, BRCA2; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 43449106468     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06230.x     Document Type: Article

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