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Glycosomal bromodomain factor 1 from Trypanosoma cruzi enhances trypomastigote cell infection and intracellular amastigote growth by Ritagliati, Carla, Villanova, Gabriela Vanina, Alonso, Victoria Lucia, Zuma, Aline Araujo, Cribb, Pamela, Motta, María Cristina Machado, Serra, Esteban Carlos

“…Acetylation is a ubiquitous protein modification present in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells that participates in the regulation of many cellular processes…”
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Trypanosoma cruzi bromodomain factor 3 binds acetylated α-tubulin and concentrates in the flagellum during metacyclogenesis by Alonso, Victoria Lucia, Villanova, Gabriela Vanina, Ritagliati, Carla, Machado Motta, María Cristina, Cribb, Pamela, Serra, Esteban Carlos

“…Bromodomains are highly conserved acetyl-lysine binding domains found mainly in proteins associated with chromatin and nuclear acetyltransferases. The…”
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Importance of Angomonas deanei KAP4 for kDNA arrangement, cell division and maintenance of the host-bacterium relationship by Gonçalves, Camila Silva, Catta-Preta, Carolina Moura Costa, Repolês, Bruno, Mottram, Jeremy C., De Souza, Wanderley, Machado, Carlos Renato, Motta, Maria Cristina M.

“…Angomonas deanei coevolves in a mutualistic relationship with a symbiotic bacterium that divides in synchronicity with other host cell structures…”
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Overexpression of Trypanosoma cruzi High Mobility Group B protein (TcHMGB) alters the nuclear structure, impairs cytokinesis and reduces the parasite infectivity by Tavernelli, Luis Emilio, Motta, Maria Cristina M., Gonçalves, Camila Silva, da Silva, Marcelo Santos, Elias, Maria Carolina, Alonso, Victoria Lucia, Serra, Esteban, Cribb, Pamela

“…Kinetoplastid parasites, included Trypanosoma cruzi , the causal agent of Chagas disease, present a unique genome organization and gene expression. Although…”
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Revisiting the Trypanosoma cruzi metacyclogenesis: morphological and ultrastructural analyses during cell differentiation by Gonçalves, Camila Silva, Ávila, Andrea Rodrigues, de Souza, Wanderley, Motta, Maria Cristina M, Cavalcanti, Danielle Pereira

“…Trypanosoma cruzi uses several strategies to survive in different hosts. A key step in the life-cycle of this parasite is metacyclogenesis, which involves…”
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High‐throughput screening for distinguishing nitrilases from nitrile hydratases in Aspergillus and application of a Box–Behnken design for the optimization of nitrilase by Santos, Edvan do Carmo, Menezes, Luiz Henrique Sales, Santos, Carolline Silva, Santana, Paulo Vinicius Bispo, Soares, Glêydison Amarante, Tavares, Iasnaia Maria de Carvalho, Freitas, Janaina de Silva, Souza‐Motta, Cristina Maria, Bezerra, José Luiz, da Costa, Andréa Miura, Uetanabaro, Ana Paula Trovatti, Porto, André Luiz Meleiro, Franco, Marcelo, Oliveira, Julieta Rangel

“…Nitrilases and nitrile hydratases/amidases hydrolyze nitriles into carboxylic acids and/or amides, which are used in industrial chemical processes. In the…”
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Endosymbiosis in trypanosomatids: the genomic cooperation between bacterium and host in the synthesis of essential amino acids is heavily influenced by multiple horizontal gene transfers by Alves, João M P, Klein, Cecilia C, da Silva, Flávia Maia, Costa-Martins, André G, Serrano, Myrna G, Buck, Gregory A, Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza R, Sagot, Marie-France, Teixeira, Marta M G, Motta, Maria Cristina M, Camargo, Erney P

“…Trypanosomatids of the genera Angomonas and Strigomonas live in a mutualistic association characterized by extensive metabolic cooperation with obligate…”
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Open chromatin analysis in Trypanosoma cruzi life forms highlights critical differences in genomic compartments and developmental regulation at tDNA loci by Lima, Alex Ranieri Jerônimo, Silva, Herbert Guimarães de Sousa, Poubel, Saloe, Rosón, Juliana Nunes, de Lima, Loyze Paola Oliveira, Costa-Silva, Héllida Marina, Gonçalves, Camila Silva, Galante, Pedro A F, Holetz, Fabiola, Motta, Maria Cristina Machado, Silber, Ariel M, Elias, M Carolina, da Cunha, Julia Pinheiro Chagas

“…Genomic organization and gene expression regulation in trypanosomes are remarkable because protein-coding genes are organized into codirectional gene clusters…”
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The effect of the biflavonoid 2″,3″-dihydroochnaflavone on Trypanosoma cruzi Y strain by Florencio, Melissa, Tomás Nery, Eveliny, Rosa, Dayana, Auxiliadora Nascimento Ribeiro, Tereza, de Brito Braz Moraes, Julliane, Araujo Zuma, Aline, da Silva Trindade, Joana D'Arc, Dutra Barbosa da Rocha, Raphael Francisco, Decote-Ricardo, Debora, Pinto-da-Silva, Lucia Helena, M. Motta, Maria Cristina, de Carvalho, Mario Geraldo, Fampa, Patrícia

“…Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease which affects 8 million people in Latin America. The parasite possesses high capacity to evade host…”
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Elastin increases biofilm and extracellular matrix production of Aspergillus fumigatus by Brandão, Ildnay de Souza Lima, Oliveira-Moraes, Heloiza Maria da Silva, Souza Motta, Cristina Maria de, Oliveira, Neiva Tinti de, Magalhães, Oliane Maria Correia

“…Aspergillus fumigatus is an opportunistic saprobe fungus that accounts for 90% of cases of pulmonary aspergillosis in immunosuppressed patients and is known…”
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Structure, Properties, and Function of Glycosomes in Trypanosoma cruzi by Quiñones, Wilfredo, Acosta, Héctor, Gonçalves, Camila Silva, Motta, Maria Cristina M, Gualdrón-López, Melisa, Michels, Paul A M

“…Glycosomes are peroxisome-related organelles that have been identified in kinetoplastids and diplonemids. The hallmark of glycosomes is their harboring of the…”
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Endosymbiosis in trypanosomatid protozoa: the bacterium division is controlled during the host cell cycle by Catta-Preta, Carolina M C, Brum, Felipe L, da Silva, Camila C, Zuma, Aline A, Elias, Maria C, de Souza, Wanderley, Schenkman, Sergio, Motta, Maria Cristina M

“…Mutualism is defined as a beneficial relationship for the associated partners and usually assumes that the symbiont number is controlled. Some trypanosomatid…”
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Species diversity of fusarioid genera associated with sweet potato in Brazil, including the description of a new species by de Mello, Juliana Ferreira, da Silva Santos, Ana Carla, de Queiroz Brito, Amanda Cupertino, da Silva Neto, José Vitorino, de Almeida Souza, Ana Elisa, da Costa, Antônio Félix, Gomes, André Angelo Medeiros, de Souza‐Motta, Cristina Maria, Lopes, Ueder Pedro, Machado, Alexandre Reis

“…Abstract The sweet potato is of great socioeconomic importance in Brazil and throughout the world. Among the fungal pathogens associated with root diseases of…”
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Chromosomal assembly of the nuclear genome of the endosymbiont-bearing trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei by Davey, John W, Catta-Preta, Carolina M C, James, Sally, Forrester, Sarah, Motta, Maria Cristina M, Ashton, Peter D, Mottram, Jeremy C

“…Angomonas deanei is an endosymbiont-bearing trypanosomatid with several highly fragmented genome assemblies and unknown chromosome number. We present an…”
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Alpha-Tubulin Acetylation in Trypanosoma cruzi : A Dynamic Instability of Microtubules Is Required for Replication and Cell Cycle Progression by Alonso, Victoria Lucia, Carloni, Mara Emilia, Gonçalves, Camila Silva, Martinez Peralta, Gonzalo, Chesta, Maria Eugenia, Pezza, Alejandro, Tavernelli, Luis Emilio, Motta, Maria Cristina M, Serra, Esteban

“…Trypanosomatids have a cytoskeleton arrangement that is simpler than what is found in most eukaryotic cells. However, it is precisely organized and constituted…”
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Biosynthesis of vitamins and cofactors in bacterium-harbouring trypanosomatids depends on the symbiotic association as revealed by genomic analyses by Klein, Cecilia C, Alves, João M P, Serrano, Myrna G, Buck, Gregory A, Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza R, Sagot, Marie-France, Teixeira, Marta M G, Camargo, Erney P, Motta, Maria Cristina M

“…Some non-pathogenic trypanosomatids maintain a mutualistic relationship with a betaproteobacterium of the Alcaligenaceae family. Intensive nutritional…”
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Expanded repertoire of kinetoplast associated proteins and unique mitochondrial DNA arrangement of symbiont-bearing trypanosomatids by de Souza, Silvana Sant Anna, Catta-Preta, Carolina Moura, Alves, João Marcelo P, Cavalcanti, Danielle P, Teixeira, Marta M G, Camargo, Erney P, De Souza, Wanderley, Silva, Rosane, Motta, Maria Cristina M

“…In trypanosomatids, the kinetoplast is the portion of the single mitochondrion that is connected to the basal body and contains the kDNA, a network composed by…”
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Brazilian tropical dry forest (Caatinga) in the spotlight: an overview of species of Aspergillus, Penicillium and Talaromyces (Eurotiales) and the description of P. vascosobrinhous sp. nov by Barbosa, Renan do Nascimento, Bezerra, Jadson Diogo Pereira, Santos, Ana Carla da Silva, Melo, Roger Fagner Ribeiro, Houbraken, Jos, Oliveira, Neiva Tinti, Souza-Motta, Cristina Maria de

“…ABSTRACT A literature-based checklist of species of Aspergillus, Penicillium, and Talaromyces recorded in the Brazilian tropical dry forest (Caatinga), the…”
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Correction to: Open chromatin analysis in Trypanosoma cruzi life forms highlights critical differences in genomic compartments and developmental regulation at tDNA loci by Lima, Alex Ranieri Jerônimo, de Sousa Silva, Herbert Guimarães, Poubel, Saloe Bispo, Rosón, Juliana Nunes, de Lima, Loyze Paola Oliveira, Costa-Silva, Héllida Marina, Gonçalves, Camila Silva, Galante, Pedro A. F, Holetz, Fabiola, Motta, Maria Cristina Machado, Silber, Ariel M, Elias, M. Carolina, da Cunha, Julia Pinheiro Chagas

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The Symbiotic Bacterium Fuels the Energy Metabolism of the Host Trypanosomatid Strigomonas culicis by Loyola-Machado, Ana Carolina, Azevedo-Martins, Allan Cézar, Catta-Preta, Carolina Moura Costa, de Souza, Wanderley, Galina, Antonio, Motta, Maria Cristina M.

“…The mutualistic relationship between trypanosomatids and their respective endosymbiotic bacteria represents an excellent model for studying metabolic…”
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