The FACT subunit TbSpt16 is involved in cell cycle specific control of VSG expression sites in Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 459-474

  Denninger, Viola ^a   Fullbrook, Alexander ^a   Bessat, Mohamed ^b   Ersfeld, Klaus ^b   Rudenko, Gloria ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; MINICHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

HEXAPODA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 78649372822     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07350.x     Document Type: Article

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