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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1998-09-22
    Description: The mechanisms underlying visual motion detection can be studied simultaneously in different cell compartments in vivo by using calcium as a reporter of the spatiotemporal activity distribution in single motion-sensitive cells of the fly. As predicted by the Reichardt model, local dendritic calcium signals are found to indicate the direction and velocity of pattern motion but are corrupted by spatial pattern properties. The latter are canceled out by spatial integration, thus leading to a purely directional selective output signal in the axon. These findings attribute a specific computational task to the dendrites of visual interneurons and imply a functional interpretation of dendritic morphology.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Single, S -- Borst, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Sep 18;281(5384):1848-50.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Friedrich-Miescher-Laboratory of the Max-Planck-Society, Spemannstrasse 37-39, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9743497" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Axons/metabolism/physiology ; Calcium/*metabolism ; Calcium Channels/metabolism ; Dendrites/metabolism/*physiology/ultrastructure ; Diptera/physiology ; Female ; Interneurons/physiology ; Membrane Potentials ; *Motion Perception ; Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/*physiology
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 2000-08-11
    Description: Synaptic efficacy critically depends on the presynaptic intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i). We measured the calcium sensitivity of glutamate release in a rat auditory brainstem synapse by laser photolysis of caged calcium. A rise in [Ca2+]i to 1 micromolar readily evoked release. An increase to 〉30 micromolar depleted the releasable vesicle pool in 〈0.5 millisecond. A comparison with action potential-evoked release suggested that a brief increase of [Ca2+]i to approximately 10 micromolar would be sufficient to reproduce the physiological release pattern. Thus, the calcium sensitivity of release at this synapse is high, and the distinction between phasic and delayed release is less pronounced than previously thought.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bollmann, J H -- Sakmann, B -- Borst, J G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Aug 11;289(5481):953-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Department of Cell Physiology, Jahnstrasse 29, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany. jbollman@mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10937999" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Animals ; Brain Stem/*metabolism ; Calcium/*metabolism ; Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials ; Glutamic Acid/*metabolism ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Photolysis ; Presynaptic Terminals/metabolism ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Synapses/*metabolism ; Synaptic Transmission ; Synaptic Vesicles/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
    Description: Motion vision is a major function of all visual systems, yet the underlying neural mechanisms and circuits are still elusive. In the lamina, the first optic neuropile of Drosophila melanogaster, photoreceptor signals split into five parallel pathways, L1-L5. Here we examine how these pathways contribute to visual motion detection by combining genetic block and reconstitution of neural activity in different lamina cell types with whole-cell recordings from downstream motion-sensitive neurons. We find reduced responses to moving gratings if L1 or L2 is blocked; however, reconstitution of photoreceptor input to only L1 or L2 results in wild-type responses. Thus, the first experiment indicates the necessity of both pathways, whereas the second indicates sufficiency of each single pathway. This contradiction can be explained by electrical coupling between L1 and L2, allowing for activation of both pathways even when only one of them receives photoreceptor input. A fundamental difference between the L1 pathway and the L2 pathway is uncovered when blocking L1 or L2 output while presenting moving edges of positive (ON) or negative (OFF) contrast polarity: blocking L1 eliminates the response to moving ON edges, whereas blocking L2 eliminates the response to moving OFF edges. Thus, similar to the segregation of photoreceptor signals in ON and OFF bipolar cell pathways in the vertebrate retina, photoreceptor signals segregate into ON-L1 and OFF-L2 channels in the lamina of Drosophila.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Joesch, Maximilian -- Schnell, Bettina -- Raghu, Shamprasad Varija -- Reiff, Dierk F -- Borst, Alexander -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 11;468(7321):300-4. doi: 10.1038/nature09545.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉MPI for Neurobiology, Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21068841" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Calcium Signaling/radiation effects ; Drosophila melanogaster/cytology/metabolism/*physiology/radiation effects ; Female ; Gap Junctions/metabolism/radiation effects ; Light ; Models, Neurological ; *Motion ; Motion Perception/*physiology/radiation effects ; Optic Lobe, Nonmammalian/cytology/physiology/radiation effects ; Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/metabolism/radiation effects ; Vision, Ocular/*physiology/radiation effects ; Visual Pathways/cytology/*physiology/radiation effects
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    Publication Date: 2013-08-09
    Description: The extraction of directional motion information from changing retinal images is one of the earliest and most important processing steps in any visual system. In the fly optic lobe, two parallel processing streams have been anatomically described, leading from two first-order interneurons, L1 and L2, via T4 and T5 cells onto large, wide-field motion-sensitive interneurons of the lobula plate. Therefore, T4 and T5 cells are thought to have a pivotal role in motion processing; however, owing to their small size, it is difficult to obtain electrical recordings of T4 and T5 cells, leaving their visual response properties largely unknown. We circumvent this problem by means of optical recording from these cells in Drosophila, using the genetically encoded calcium indicator GCaMP5 (ref. 2). Here we find that specific subpopulations of T4 and T5 cells are directionally tuned to one of the four cardinal directions; that is, front-to-back, back-to-front, upwards and downwards. Depending on their preferred direction, T4 and T5 cells terminate in specific sublayers of the lobula plate. T4 and T5 functionally segregate with respect to contrast polarity: whereas T4 cells selectively respond to moving brightness increments (ON edges), T5 cells only respond to moving brightness decrements (OFF edges). When the output from T4 or T5 cells is blocked, the responses of postsynaptic lobula plate neurons to moving ON (T4 block) or OFF edges (T5 block) are selectively compromised. The same effects are seen in turning responses of tethered walking flies. Thus, starting with L1 and L2, the visual input is split into separate ON and OFF pathways, and motion along all four cardinal directions is computed separately within each pathway. The output of these eight different motion detectors is then sorted such that ON (T4) and OFF (T5) motion detectors with the same directional tuning converge in the same layer of the lobula plate, jointly providing the input to downstream circuits and motion-driven behaviours.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Maisak, Matthew S -- Haag, Juergen -- Ammer, Georg -- Serbe, Etienne -- Meier, Matthias -- Leonhardt, Aljoscha -- Schilling, Tabea -- Bahl, Armin -- Rubin, Gerald M -- Nern, Aljoscha -- Dickson, Barry J -- Reiff, Dierk F -- Hopp, Elisabeth -- Borst, Alexander -- England -- Nature. 2013 Aug 8;500(7461):212-6. doi: 10.1038/nature12320.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23925246" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Behavior, Animal/physiology ; Drosophila/cytology/*physiology ; Interneurons/physiology ; Locomotion/physiology ; Motion Perception/*physiology ; Neurons/physiology ; Signal Transduction ; Visual Pathways/cytology/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 2013-05-03
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Borst, Alexander -- Plett, Johannes -- England -- Nature. 2013 May 2;497(7447):47-8. doi: 10.1038/497047a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23636393" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Arthropods/*anatomy & histology ; *Biomimetics ; Compound Eye, Arthropod/*anatomy & histology ; Optics and Photonics/*instrumentation ; Photography/*instrumentation
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    Publication Date: 1996-02-23
    Description: The human Dubin-Johnson syndrome and its animal model, the TR(-) rat, are characterized by a chronic conjugated hyperbilirubinemia. TR(-) rats are defective in the canalicular multispecific organic anion transporter (cMOAT), which mediates hepatobiliary excretion of numerous organic anions. The complementary DNA for rat cmoat, a homolog of the human multidrug resistance gene (hMRP1), was isolated and shown to be expressed in the canalicular membrane of hepatocytes. In the TR(-) rat, a single-nucleotide deletion in this gene resulted in a reduced messenger RNA level and absence of the protein. It is likely that this mutation accounts for the TR(-) phenotype.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Paulusma, C C -- Bosma, P J -- Zaman, G J -- Bakker, C T -- Otter, M -- Scheffer, G L -- Scheper, R J -- Borst, P -- Oude Elferink, R P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Feb 23;271(5252):1126-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Center for Liver and Intestinal Research, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8599091" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/analysis/chemistry/*genetics ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Anion Transport Proteins ; Base Sequence ; Carrier Proteins/analysis/chemistry/*genetics ; Cell Membrane/chemistry ; DNA, Complementary/genetics ; Frameshift Mutation ; Humans ; Hyperbilirubinemia, Hereditary/*genetics ; Liver/*chemistry/cytology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Weight ; Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins ; Phenotype ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Sequence Alignment ; Sequence Deletion
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1994-06-24
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Borst, P -- Rudenko, G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jun 24;264(5167):1872-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Division of Molecular Biology, Amsterdam.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7516579" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Antigenic Variation ; Carrier Proteins/genetics/immunology ; Epitopes ; *Genes, Protozoan ; Iron-Binding Proteins ; Lipoproteins, LDL/metabolism ; Mutation ; Protozoan Vaccines ; Receptors, Transferrin/genetics/immunology/metabolism ; Transferrin/metabolism ; Transferrin-Binding Proteins ; Trypanosoma brucei brucei/genetics/*immunology ; Variant Surface Glycoproteins, Trypanosoma/genetics/*immunology
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    Publication Date: 2010-02-13
    Description: Synaptic vesicle fusion in brain synapses occurs in phases that are either tightly coupled to action potentials (synchronous), immediately following action potentials (asynchronous), or as stochastic events in the absence of action potentials (spontaneous). Synaptotagmin-1, -2, and -9 are vesicle-associated Ca2+ sensors for synchronous release. Here we found that double C2 domain (Doc2) proteins act as Ca2+ sensors to trigger spontaneous release. Although Doc2 proteins are cytosolic, they function analogously to synaptotagmin-1 but with a higher Ca2+ sensitivity. Doc2 proteins bound to N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment receptor (SNARE) complexes in competition with synaptotagmin-1. Thus, different classes of multiple C2 domain-containing molecules trigger synchronous versus spontaneous fusion, which suggests a general mechanism for synaptic vesicle fusion triggered by the combined actions of SNAREs and multiple C2 domain-containing proteins.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846320/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846320/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Groffen, Alexander J -- Martens, Sascha -- Diez Arazola, Rocio -- Cornelisse, L Niels -- Lozovaya, Natalia -- de Jong, Arthur P H -- Goriounova, Natalia A -- Habets, Ron L P -- Takai, Yoshimi -- Borst, J Gerard -- Brose, Nils -- McMahon, Harvey T -- Verhage, Matthijs -- MC_U105178795/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- U.1051.02.007(78795)/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Mar 26;327(5973):1614-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1183765. Epub 2010 Feb 11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Functional Genomics, CNCR, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University and VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands. sander.groffen@cncr.vu.nl〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20150444" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Calcium/*metabolism ; Calcium-Binding Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Cells, Cultured ; Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials ; Hippocampus/cytology ; Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potentials ; Membrane Fusion ; Mice ; Mice, Knockout ; Mutant Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Neurons/physiology ; Neurotransmitter Agents/*metabolism ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Purkinje Cells/physiology ; Rats ; SNARE Proteins/metabolism ; *Synaptic Transmission ; Synaptic Vesicles/*physiology ; Synaptotagmin I/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2015-03-25
    Description: Error-free repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) is achieved by homologous recombination (HR), and BRCA1 is an important factor for this repair pathway. In the absence of BRCA1-mediated HR, the administration of PARP inhibitors induces synthetic lethality of tumour cells of patients with breast or ovarian cancers. Despite the benefit of this tailored therapy, drug resistance can occur by HR restoration. Genetic reversion of BRCA1-inactivating mutations can be the underlying mechanism of drug resistance, but this does not explain resistance in all cases. In particular, little is known about BRCA1-independent restoration of HR. Here we show that loss of REV7 (also known as MAD2L2) in mouse and human cell lines re-establishes CTIP-dependent end resection of DSBs in BRCA1-deficient cells, leading to HR restoration and PARP inhibitor resistance, which is reversed by ATM kinase inhibition. REV7 is recruited to DSBs in a manner dependent on the H2AX-MDC1-RNF8-RNF168-53BP1 chromatin pathway, and seems to block HR and promote end joining in addition to its regulatory role in DNA damage tolerance. Finally, we establish that REV7 blocks DSB resection to promote non-homologous end-joining during immunoglobulin class switch recombination. Our results reveal an unexpected crucial function of REV7 downstream of 53BP1 in coordinating pathological DSB repair pathway choices in BRCA1-deficient cells.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671316/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671316/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Xu, Guotai -- Chapman, J Ross -- Brandsma, Inger -- Yuan, Jingsong -- Mistrik, Martin -- Bouwman, Peter -- Bartkova, Jirina -- Gogola, Ewa -- Warmerdam, Daniel -- Barazas, Marco -- Jaspers, Janneke E -- Watanabe, Kenji -- Pieterse, Mark -- Kersbergen, Ariena -- Sol, Wendy -- Celie, Patrick H N -- Schouten, Philip C -- van den Broek, Bram -- Salman, Ahmed -- Nieuwland, Marja -- de Rink, Iris -- de Ronde, Jorma -- Jalink, Kees -- Boulton, Simon J -- Chen, Junjie -- van Gent, Dik C -- Bartek, Jiri -- Jonkers, Jos -- Borst, Piet -- Rottenberg, Sven -- 090532/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 104558/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- P30 CA016672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2015 May 28;521(7553):541-4. doi: 10.1038/nature14328. Epub 2015 Mar 23.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Molecular Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ; The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK. ; Department of Genetics, Erasmus, University Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ; Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic. ; Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ; Danish Cancer Society Research Center, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Division of Cell Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ; Protein Facility, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ; Deep Sequencing Core Facility, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ; Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ; DNA Damage Response Laboratory, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, Clare Hall, South Mimms, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, UK. ; 1] Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic [2] Danish Cancer Society Research Center, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; 1] Division of Molecular Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands [2] Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Laengassstrasse 122, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25799992" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism ; BRCA1 Protein/deficiency/genetics/metabolism ; Cell Line ; Chromatin/metabolism ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/metabolism ; *DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded ; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/genetics ; Histones/metabolism ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin Class Switching/genetics ; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/metabolism ; Mad2 Proteins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Mice ; Nuclear Proteins/metabolism ; *Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase Inhibitors ; *Recombinational DNA Repair ; Trans-Activators/metabolism ; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/metabolism
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1987-02-06
    Description: Programmed gene rearrangements are used in nature to to alter gene copy number (gene amplification and deletion), to create diversity by reassorting gene segments (as in the formation of mammalian immunoglobulin genes), or to control the expression of a set of genes that code for the same function (such as surface antigens). Two major mechanisms for expression control are DNA inversion and DNA transposition. In DNA inversion a DNA segment flips around and is rejoined by site-specific recombination, disconnecting or connecting a gene to sequences required for its expression. In DNA transposition a gene moves into an expression site where it displaces its predecessor by gene conversion. Gene rearrangements altering gene expression have mainly been found in some unicellular organisms. They allow a fraction of the organisms to preadapt to sudden changes in environment, that is, to alter properties such as surface antigens in the absence of an inducing stimulus. The antigenic variation that helps the causative agents of African trypanosomiasis, gonorrhea, and relapsing fever to elude host defense is controlled in this way.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Borst, P -- Greaves, D R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Feb 6;235(4789):658-67.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3544215" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antigens/genetics ; B-Lymphocytes/physiology ; Borrelia/immunology ; Chromosome Deletion ; *Gene Amplification ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; Glycoproteins/genetics ; Humans ; Immunoglobulins/genetics ; Neisseria/immunology ; Peptides/genetics ; *Recombination, Genetic ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics ; T-Lymphocytes/physiology ; Trypanosoma/genetics ; Variant Surface Glycoproteins, Trypanosoma ; Zea mays/genetics
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