Antigenic Variation: Extending the Reach of Telomeric Silencing

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Horn, David ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERE BINDING PROTEIN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; SHORT SURVEY; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 67149133352     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.04.049     Document Type: Short Survey

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