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| Title |
Variant Surface Glycoprotein gene repertoires in Trypanosoma brucei have diverged to become strain-specific
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| Published in |
BMC Genomics, July 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-8-234 |
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| Authors |
O Clyde Hutchinson, Kim Picozzi, Nicola G Jones, Helen Mott, Reuben Sharma, Susan C Welburn, Mark Carrington |
| Abstract |
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 is a low frequency stochastic switch to expression of a different VSG gene. The genome of Trypanosoma brucei contains a repertoire of > 1000 VSG sequences. The degree of conservation of the genomic VSG repertoire in different strains has not been investigated in detail. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 68 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 65 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 16 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 12 | 18% |
| Unknown | 5 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 35 | 51% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 13 | 19% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 4% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 2 | 3% |
| Unknown | 9 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 July 2013.
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#3,597
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#24,534
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#8
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