Calmodulin is required for paraflagellar rod assembly and flagellum-cell body attachment in trypanosomes.
In the flagellum of the African sleeping sickness parasite Trypanosoma brucei calmodulin (CaM) is found within the paraflagellar rod (PFR), an elaborate extra-axonemal structure, and the axoneme. In dissecting mechanisms of motility regulation we analysed CaM function using RNAi. Unexpectedly CaM de...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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