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Cathepsin-L can resist lysis by human serum in Trypanosoma brucei brucei. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2014
Closely related African trypanosomes cause lethal diseases but display distinct host ranges. Specifically, Trypanosoma brucei brucei causes nagana in livestock but fails to infect humans, while Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei ...
Sam Alsford, Rachel B Currier, José Afonso Guerra-Assunção, Taane G Clark, David Horn   +4 more
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Identification of compounds with anti-proliferative activity against Trypanosoma brucei brucei strain 427 by a whole cell viability based HTS campaign. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012
Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is caused by two trypanosome sub-species, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. Drugs available for the treatment of HAT have significant issues related to difficult administration regimes ...
Melissa L Sykes, Jonathan B Baell, Marcel Kaiser, Eric Chatelain, Sarah R Moawad, Danny Ganame, Jean-Robert Ioset, Vicky M Avery   +7 more
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Wild chimpanzees are infected by Trypanosoma brucei

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2015
Although wild chimpanzees and other African great apes live in regions endemic for African sleeping sickness, very little is known about their trypanosome infections, mainly due to major difficulties in obtaining their blood samples.
Milan Jirků, Jan Votýpka, Klára J. Petrželková, Kateřina Jirků-Pomajbíková, Eva Kriegová, Roman Vodička, Felix Lankester, Siv Aina J. Leendertz, Roman M. Wittig, Christophe Boesch, David Modrý, Francisco J. Ayala, Fabian H. Leendertz, Julius Lukeš   +13 more
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Tracking autophagy during proliferation and differentiation of trypanosoma brucei [PDF]

, 2014
Autophagy is a lysosome-dependent degradation mechanism that sequesters target cargo into autophagosomal vesicles. The Trypanosoma brucei genome contains apparent orthologues of several autophagy-related proteins including an ATG8 family. These ubiquitin-
Proto, William R., Jones, Nathaniel G., Mottram, Jeremy, Jones, N.G., Coombs, Graham, Mottram, Jeremy C., Coombs, Graham H., Proto, William R   +7 more
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The individual components of commercial isometamidium do not possess stronger trypanocidal activity than the mixture, nor bypass isometamidium resistance

International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 2019
The four components present in the trypanocidal treatment Samorin, the commercially available formulation of isometamidium, were separated and purified by column chromatography.
Anthonius A. Eze, John Igoli, Alexander I. Gray, Graham G. Skellern, Harry P. De Koning   +4 more
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Ribose 5-phosphate isomerase B knockdown compromises Trypanosoma brucei bloodstream form infectivity. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
Ribose 5-phosphate isomerase is an enzyme involved in the non-oxidative branch of the pentose phosphate pathway, and catalyzes the inter-conversion of D-ribose 5-phosphate and D-ribulose 5-phosphate.
Inês Loureiro, Joana Faria, Christine Clayton, Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro, Nuno Santarém, Nilanjan Roy, Anabela Cordeiro-da-Siva, Joana Tavares   +7 more
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VSGs Expressed during Natural T. b. gambiense Infection Exhibit Extensive Sequence Divergence and a Subspecies-Specific Bias towards Type B N-Terminal Domains

mBio, 2022
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is the primary causative agent of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), a vector-borne disease endemic to West and Central Africa.
Jaime So, Sarah Sudlow, Abeer Sayeed, Tanner Grudda, Stijn Deborggraeve, Dieudonné Mumba Ngoyi, Didier Kashiama Desamber, Bill Wickstead, Veerle Lejon, Monica R. Mugnier   +9 more
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Characterization of an endopeptidase of Trypanosoma brucei brucei

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 1992
A soluble 80-kDa endopeptidase has been isolated from Trypanosoma brucei brucei. The enzyme, which has a pI 5.1, is optimally active at about pH 8.2 and has apparent pKa values of 6.0 and greater than or equal to 10. It is inhibited by the serine protease inhibitor diisopropylfluorophosphate and by the serine protease mechanism-based inhibitor 3,4 ...
Kornblatt, M.J., Mpimbaza, G.W.N., Lonsdale-Eccles, J.D.   +2 more
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An Atypical Mitochondrial Carrier That Mediates Drug Action in Trypanosoma brucei [PDF]

, 2015
Elucidating the mechanism of action of trypanocidal compounds is an important step in the development of more efficient drugs against Trypanosoma brucei. In a screening approach using an RNAi library in T. brucei bloodstream forms, we identified a member
Vial, Henri, Niemann, Moritz, de Macêdo, Juan P., Isabel Roditi, Henri Vial (24552), Moritz Niemann, Mäser, Pascal, Juan P. de Macêdo (735541), Bütikofer, Peter, Barrett, Michael P., Michael P Barrett, Gabriela Schumann Burkard (259590), Pascal Mäser (87895), Peter Bütikofer, Moritz Niemann (735542), Pascal Mäser, Horn, David, André Schneider (74039), Juan P de Macêdo, Isabel Roditi (60386), André Schneider, Roditi, Isabel, Schumann Burkard, Gabriela, Henri Vial, Schneider, André, Schumann-Burkard, Gabriela, Gabriela Schumann Burkard, Michael P. Barrett (167748), Peter Bütikofer (147146)   +28 more
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Whole-Genome Sequencing of Trypanosoma brucei Reveals Introgression between Subspecies That Is Associated with Virulence

mBio, 2013
Human African trypanosomiasis is caused by two subspecies of Trypanosoma brucei. Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense is found in East Africa and frequently causes acute disease, while Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is found in West Africa and is associated with
Ian Goodhead, Paul Capewell, J. Wendi Bailey, Tanja Beament, Michael Chance, Suzanne Kay, Sarah Forrester, Annette MacLeod, Mark Taylor, Harry Noyes, Neil Hall   +10 more
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