Variant surface glycoproteins of Trypanosoma brucei are synthesised with cleavable hydrophobic sequences at the carboxy and amino termini.

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Published in Nucleic Acids Res on September 25, 1981

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J C Boothroyd, C A Paynter, G A Cross, A Bernards, P Borst

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