Isolation of the repertoire of VSG expression site containing telomeres of Trypanosoma brucei 427 using transformation-associated recombination in yeast

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2319-2329

  Becker, Marion ^a   Aitcheson, Niall ^b   Byles, Elaine ^c   Wickstead, Bill ^d   Louis, Edward ^a   Rudenko, Gloria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA; VIRULENCE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 8744298412     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2955304     Document Type: Article

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