Abstract:
:Trypanosoma brucei survives in mammals by antigenic variation of its surface coat consisting of variant surface glycoprotein (VSG). Trypanosomes change coat mainly by replacing the transcribed VSG genes in an active telomeric expression site by a different VSG gene. There are about 20 different expression sites and trypanosomes can also change coat by switching the site that is active. This review summarizes recent work on the mechanism of site switching and on the way inactive expression sites are kept silent.
journal_name
Mol Biochem Parasitoljournal_title
Molecular and biochemical parasitologyauthors
Borst P,Ulbert Sdoi
10.1016/s0166-6851(01)00243-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2001-04-25 00:00:00pages
17-27issue
1eissn
0166-6851issn
1872-9428pii
S0166-6851(01)00243-2journal_volume
114pub_type
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