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Molecular one-upmanship

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Pathogens and their hosts engage in perpetual molecular arms races. In one such evolutionary stand-off, the protagonists are trypanosome parasites and a human immune complex based on a high-density lipoprotein. See Letter p.430

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Figure 1: Trypanosome resistance to host immunity.

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  1. Jayne Raper is at Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, New York 10065, USA.,

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  2. David J. Friedman is in the Renal Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.,

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Raper, J., Friedman, D. Molecular one-upmanship. Nature 501, 322–323 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/501322a

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