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Trypanosoma brucei ATR Links DNA Damage Signaling during Antigenic Variation with Regulation of RNA Polymerase I-Transcribed Surface Antigens.
Cell reports - 21 Jan 2020
Black Jennifer Ann, Crouch Kathryn, Lemgruber Leandro, Lapsley Craig, Dickens Nicholas, Tosi Luiz R O, Mottram Jeremy C, McCulloch Richard
Abstract excerpt
Trypanosoma brucei evades mammalian immunity by using recombination to switch its surface-expressed variant surface glycoprotein (VSG), while ensuring that only one of many subtelomeric multigene VSG expression sites are transcribed at a time. DNA repair activities have been implicated in the catalysis of VSG switching by recombination, not transcriptional control. How VSG switching is signaled to guide the...
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