Abstract

Glycerol, a possible new player in the biology of trypanosomes.

Highlights

  • Trypanosoma brucei is a unicellular eukaryote that causes human African trypanosomiasis, known as sleeping sickness [1]

  • Parasite transmission between mammals is ensured by a haematophagous insect vector of the genus Glossina, called the tsetse fly

  • Trypanosomes adapt to their natural hosts, in particular to the available carbon sources required to fuel central metabolism and to produce ATP

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Frederic BringaudID*, Nicolas PlazollesID, Erika PinedaID, Corinne AsencioID, Oriana VillafrazID, Yoann MilleriouxID, Loïc RivièreID, Emmanuel TetaudID. Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogenicite (MFP), UMR 5234, Bordeaux University, CNRS, Bordeaux, France a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111

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