Gene conversions mediating antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei can occur in variant surface glycoprotein expression sites lacking 70-base-pair repeat sequences.

African trypanosomes undergo antigenic variation of their variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) coat to avoid immune system-mediated killing by their mammalian host. An important mechanism for switching the expressed VSG gene is the duplicative transposition of a silent VSG gene into one of the telomer...

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Hlavní autoři: McCulloch, R, Rudenko, G, Borst, P
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: 1997
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC231809/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9001237
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