Angomonas deanei is an endosymbiont-bearing trypanosomatid with several highly
fragmented genome assemblies and unknown chromosome number. We present an …

We screened the genomes of a broad panel of kinetoplastid protists for genes encoding
proteins associated with the RNA interference (RNAi) system using probes from the …

Undergraduate students participating in the UCLA Undergraduate Research Consortium for
Functional Genomics (URCFG) have conducted a two-phased screen using RNA …

The symbiosis in trypanosomatids is a mutualistic relationship characterized by extensive
metabolic exchanges between the bacterium and the protozoan. The symbiotic bacterium …

Microtubules are components of the cytoskeleton that perform essential functions in
eukaryotes, such as those related to shape change, motility and cell division. In this context …

In trypanosomatids, the kinetoplast is the portion of the single mitochondrion that is
connected to the basal body and contains the kDNA, a network composed by circular and …

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) presents unique properties to establishing bacterium
symbiosis in eukaryotic cells since it synthesizes and glycosylates essential molecules like …

Eukaryotic life has been shaped fundamentally by the integration of bacterial
endosymbionts. The trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei that contains a β-proteobacterial …

Parasitic and endosymbiontic bacteria can be considered as two different products of a
process that would begin by infecting the host cells, avoiding the host defense response and …