Variant Surface Glycoprotein gene repertoires in <it>Trypanosoma brucei </it>have diverged to become strain-specific
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In a mammalian host, the cell surface of African trypanosomes is protected by a monolayer of a single variant surface glycoprotein (VSG). The VSG is central to antigenic variation; one VSG gene is expressed at any one time and there...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2007-07-01
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| Series: | BMC Genomics |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/234 |