A quorum sensing-independent path to stumpy development in Trypanosoma brucei.
For persistent infections of the mammalian host, African trypanosomes limit their population size by quorum sensing of the parasite-excreted stumpy induction factor (SIF), which induces development to the tsetse-infective stumpy stage. We found that besides this cell density-dependent mechanism, the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-04-01
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| Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5398725?pdf=render |