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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Alves JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3154472 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20110810 8
It has been known for decades that some insect-infecting trypanosomatids can survive in culture without heme supplementation while others cannot, and that this capability is associated with the presence of a betaproteobacterial endosymbiont in the flagellate's cytoplasm. However, the specific mechanisms involved in this process remained obscure. In this work, we sequence and phylogenetically analyze the heme pathway genes from the symbionts and from their hosts, as well as from a number of heme ...[more]