Leishmania guyanensis M4147 as a new LRV1-bearing model parasite: Phosphatidate phosphatase 2-like protein controls cell cycle progression and intracellular lipid content.

• Main Authors: Alexandra Zakharova (Author), Amanda T S Albanaz (Author), Fred R Opperdoes (Author), Ingrid Škodová-Sveráková (Author), Diana Zagirova (Author), Andreu Saura (Author), Lˇubomíra Chmelová (Author), Evgeny S Gerasimov (Author), Tereza Leštinová (Author), Tomáš Bečvář (Author), Jovana Sádlová (Author), Petr Volf (Author), Julius Lukeš (Author), Anton Horváth (Author), Anzhelika Butenko (Author), Vyacheslav Yurchenko (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Leishmaniasis is a parasitic vector-borne disease caused by the protistan flagellates of the genus Leishmania. Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis is one of the most common causative agents of the American tegumentary leishmaniasis. It has previously been shown that L. guyanensis strains that carry the...