The hows and whys of amastigote flagellum motility in Trypanosoma cruzi

ABSTRACT The protist Trypanosoma cruzi exhibits several extracellular stages characterized by the presence of a long and motile flagellum and one intracellular life cycle stage termed amastigote, which possesses a tiny flagellum barely exiting the flagellar pocket. This stage was so far described as...

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Main Authors: Aline Araujo Alves, Philippe Bastin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-08-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00531-23