The major cell surface glycoprotein procyclin is a receptor for induction of a novel form of cell death in African trypanosomes in vitro.

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Published in Mol Biochem Parasitol on December 01, 2000

Authors

T W Pearson1, R P Beecroft, S C Welburn, S Ruepp, I Roditi, K Y Hwa, P T Englund, C W Wells, N B Murphy

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1: Department of Biochemistry andi Microbiology, University of Victoria, BC, Canada. parasite@uvvm.uvic.ca

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