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Cryo-electron tomography and 3-D analysis of the intact flagellum in Trypanosoma brucei.


ABSTRACT: Trypanosoma brucei is a uni-cellular protist that causes African sleeping sickness. These parasites have a flagellum that is attached to the cell body and is indispensible for its motility. The flagellum consists of a canonical 9+2 axoneme and a paraflagellar rod (PFR), an intricate tripartite, fibrous structure that is connected to the axoneme. In this paper we describe results from cryo-electron tomography of unperturbed flagella. This method revealed novel structures that are likely involved in attaching the flagellum to the cell. We also show the first cryo-electron tomographic images of a basal body in situ, revealing electron dense structures inside its triplet microtubules. Sub-tomogram averaging of the PFR revealed that its distal region is organized as an orthorhombic crystal.

SUBMITTER: Hoog JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3355306 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cryo-electron tomography and 3-D analysis of the intact flagellum in Trypanosoma brucei.

Höög Johanna L JL   Bouchet-Marquis Cédric C   McIntosh J Richard JR   Hoenger Andreas A   Gull Keith K  

Journal of structural biology 20120125 2


Trypanosoma brucei is a uni-cellular protist that causes African sleeping sickness. These parasites have a flagellum that is attached to the cell body and is indispensible for its motility. The flagellum consists of a canonical 9+2 axoneme and a paraflagellar rod (PFR), an intricate tripartite, fibrous structure that is connected to the axoneme. In this paper we describe results from cryo-electron tomography of unperturbed flagella. This method revealed novel structures that are likely involved  ...[more]

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