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Monosaccharide composition of the surface glycoprotein antigens of Trypanosoma brucei

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

B. A. Allsopp  and
A. R. Njogu
B. A. Allsopp
Affiliation:
East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization, Tororo, Uganda
A. R. Njogu
Affiliation:
East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization, Tororo, Uganda
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Evidence has been adduced that the surface antigens of Trypanosoma brucei subgroup are a group of glycoproteins having D-galactose, D-mannose and D-glucosamine as monosaccharide components.

There was considerable variation in the number of antigen components, and their relative amounts, as revealed by isoelectric focusing on polyacrylamide gel. The relevance of these variations to the adaptation theory of antigenic variation in trypanosomes is discussed.

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Parasitology , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , December 1974 , pp. 271 - 281
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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