Expression site attenuation mechanistically links antigenic variation and development in Trypanosoma brucei

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Batram, Christopher ^a   Jones, Nicola G ^a   Janzen, Christian J ^a   Markert, Sebastian M ^a   Engstler, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; KINETOPLAST; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; ALLELE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL RNA; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ALLELES; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 84901322899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02324     Document Type: Article

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