Adaptation of Trypanosoma rhodesiense to hypohaptoglobinaemic serum requires transcription of the APOL1 resistance gene in a RNA polymerase I locus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 397-407

  Lecordier, Laurence ^a   Uzureau, Pierrick ^a   Tebabi, Patricia ^a   Brauner, Jonathan ^b   Benghiat, Fleur Samantha ^b   Vanhollebeke, Benoit ^a   Pays, Etienne ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c Walloon Excellence in Life Sciences and Biotechnology (WELBIO)   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; HAPTOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRYPANOSOMA GAMBIENSE SPECIFIC GLYCOPROTEIN; TRYPANOSOME LYTIC FACTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; APOL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; APOLIPOPROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; HEMOGLOBIN-HAPTOGLOBIN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; APOLIPOPROTEIN L1 GENE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; SERUM RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED GENE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; UPREGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; APOLIPOPROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPTOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA POLYMERASE I; SERUM; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE;

EID: 84937973560     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13036     Document Type: Article

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