scholarly journals Functional characterization of a 48 kDa Trypanosoma brucei cap 2 RNA methyltransferase

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (19) ◽  
pp. 5594-5602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan P. Hall ◽  
C. Kiong Ho
2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 411-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Björn Bassarak ◽  
Nestor L. Uzcátegui ◽  
Caroline Schönfeld ◽  
Michael Duszenko

RNA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1846-1861 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Kafkova ◽  
M. L. Ammerman ◽  
D. Faktorova ◽  
J. C. Fisk ◽  
S. L. Zimmer ◽  
...  

FEBS Letters ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 584 (13) ◽  
pp. 2901-2908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Yuan Goh ◽  
Cheng-Yu Lai ◽  
Luuan Chin Tan ◽  
Daiwen Yang ◽  
Cynthia Y. He ◽  
...  

mBio ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hung Quang Dang ◽  
Qing Zhou ◽  
Veronica W. Rowlett ◽  
Huiqing Hu ◽  
Kyu Joon Lee ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT The basal body shares similar architecture with centrioles in animals and is involved in nucleating flagellar axonemal microtubules in flagellated eukaryotes. The early-branching Trypanosoma brucei possesses a motile flagellum nucleated from the basal body that consists of a mature basal body and an adjacent pro-basal body. Little is known about the basal body proteome and its roles in basal body biogenesis and flagellar axoneme assembly in T. brucei . Here, we report the identification of 14 conserved centriole/basal body protein homologs and 25 trypanosome-specific basal body proteins. These proteins localize to distinct subdomains of the basal body, and several of them form a ring-like structure surrounding the basal body barrel. Functional characterization of representative basal body proteins revealed distinct roles in basal body duplication/separation and flagellar axoneme assembly. Overall, this work identified novel proteins required for basal body duplication and separation and uncovered new functions of conserved basal body proteins in basal body duplication and separation, highlighting an unusual mechanism of basal body biogenesis and inheritance in this early divergent eukaryote. IMPORTANCE The basal body in the early-branching protozoan Trypanosoma brucei nucleates flagellum assembly and also regulates organelle segregation, cell morphogenesis, and cell division. However, the molecular composition and the assembly process of the basal body remain poorly understood. Here, we identify 14 conserved basal body proteins and 25 trypanosome-specific basal body proteins via bioinformatics, localization-based screening, and proximity-dependent biotin identification. We further localized these proteins to distinct subdomains of the basal body by using fluorescence microscopy and superresolution microscopy, discovered novel regulators of basal body duplication and separation, and uncovered new functions of conserved basal body proteins in basal body duplication and separation. This work lays the foundation for dissecting the mechanisms underlying basal body biogenesis and inheritance in T. brucei .


2006 ◽  
Vol 92 (6) ◽  
pp. 1152-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sedrick Anderson ◽  
Candace Jones ◽  
Lipi Saha ◽  
Minu Chaudhuri

2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (Spring) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Wendler ◽  
Thorsten Irsch ◽  
R. Luise Krauth-Siegel

2001 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget M. Joubert ◽  
Lisa N. Nguyen ◽  
Seiichi P.T. Matsuda ◽  
Frederick S. Buckner

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