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SUBMITTER: Rebello KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6604109 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parasitology 20190506 8
Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, a vector-borne disease. The parasite molecules involved in vector interaction have been little investigated. Metallopeptidases and gp63 molecules have been implicated in parasite adhesion of several trypanosomatids to the insect midgut. Although gp63 homologues are highly expanded in the T. cruzi genome, and are implicated in parasite-mammalian host interaction, its role in the insect vector has never been explored. Here, we showed that ...[more]