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Structural similarities between the metacyclic and bloodstream form variant surface glycoproteins of the African trypanosome

During infection of mammalian hosts, African trypanosomes thwart immunity using antigenic variation of the dense Variant Surface Glycoprotein (VSG) coat, accessing a large repertoire of several thousand genes and pseudogenes, and switching to antigenically distinct copies. The parasite is transferre...

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Autores principales: Chandra, Monica, Đaković, Sara, Foti, Konstantina, Zeelen, Johan P., van Straaten, Monique, Aresta-Branco, Francisco, Tihon, Eliane, Lübbehusen, Nicole, Ruppert, Thomas, Glover, Lucy, Papavasiliou, F. Nina, Stebbins, C. Erec
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9956791/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36780870
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011093

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