Interactions among Trypanosoma brucei RAD51 paralogues in DNA repair and antigenic variation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 434-456

  Dobson, Rachel ^a   Stockdale, Christopher ^a   Lapsley, Craig ^a   Wilkes, Jonathan ^a   McCulloch, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAD51 PROTEIN; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA REPAIR; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAD51 GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA REPAIR; GENE DELETION; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 79960186615     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07703.x     Document Type: Article

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