Journal
PARASITOLOGY
Volume 137, Issue 14, Pages 2029-2039Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182009992034
Keywords
Trypanosome; VSG; antigenic variation
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- Wellcome Trust
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Trypanosoma brucei is exposed to the adaptive immune system and complement in the blood of its mammalian hosts. The aim of this review is to analyse the role and regulation of the proteins present on the external face of the plasma membrane in the long-term persistence of an infection and transmission. In particular, the following are addressed: (1) antigenic variation of the variant surface glycoprotein (VSG), (2) the formation of an effective VSG barrier shielding invariant surface proteins, and (3) the rapid uptake of VSG antibody complexes combined with degradation of the immunoglobulin and recycling of the VSG.
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