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SUBMITTER: Souza ROO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7180609 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Souza Rodolpho Ornitz Oliveira ROO Crispim Marcell M Silber Ariel Mariano AM Damasceno Flávia Silva FS
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20200402 7
<i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i> is the aetiologic agent of Chagas disease, which affects people in the Americas and worldwide. The parasite has a complex life cycle that alternates among mammalian hosts and insect vectors. During its life cycle, <i>T. cruzi</i> passes through different environments and faces nutrient shortages. It has been established that amino acids, such as proline, histidine, alanine, and glutamate, are crucial to <i>T. cruzi</i> survival. Recently, we described that <i>T. cruzi</i ...[more]