Purified variant specific antigens of Trypanosoma brucei were shown to exist in solution as dimers, and occasionally as higher oligomers, as judged by gel filtration and by sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis after treatment with bifunctional cross-linking reagents.
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