title: Do trypanosome turncoats wait before they commit?
abstract: The strategy that sleeping sickness parasites use to evade the mammalian immune system may be linked to the metamorphosis that allows them to transfer from mammals into tsetse flies.
authors.affiliation: Cher-Pheng Ooi is in the Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Cher-Pheng
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Ooi
authors.affiliation: Gloria Rudenko is in the Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom gloria.rudenko@imperial.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rudenko
mesh_terms: D000940:Antigenic Variation; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D017125:Genes, Protozoan; D006801:Humans; D015800:Protozoan Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D016053:RNA, Protozoan / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014346:Trypanosoma brucei brucei / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D015800:Protozoan Proteins; D016053:RNA, Protozoan
keywords: Trypanosoma brucei; antigenic variation; developmental reprogramming; expression site attenuation; parasites; variant surface glycoprotein (VSG)