Neue und konservierte Rollen der Histonmethyltransferase DOT1B in Parasiten der Ordnung Trypanosomatida

  • Eisenhuth, Nicole Juliana
Publication date
January 2021

Abstract

The family of trypanosomatid parasites, including the human pathogens Trypanosoma brucei and Leishmania, has evolved sophisticated strategies to survive in harmful host environments. While Leishmania generate a safe niche inside the host’s macrophages, Trypanosoma brucei lives extracellularly in the mammalian bloodstream, where it is constantly exposed to the attack of the immune system. Trypanosoma brucei ensures its survival by periodically changing its protective surface coat in a process known as antigenic variation. The surface coat is composed of one species of ‘variant surface glycoprotein’ (VSG). Even though the genome possesses a large repertoire of different VSG isoforms, only one is ever expressed at a time from one out of the 15...

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