Encystation-specific vesicles in Giardia: a primordial Golgi or just another secretory compartment?
- Details
- Publication Year 2003-10,Volume 19,Issue #10,Page 440-446
- Journal Title
- TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
- Publication Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- Giardia intestinalis is better known to cause diarrheal disease than to be the object of basic research in cell biology. However, this is about to change: the unique biology of this parasite and a genome project combine to earn this amitochondriate a place among the better-known model organisms. One consequence of its phylogenetic status is that Giardia has at the same time highly specialized traits, and basic features such as an apparently Golgi-less secretory system. This article discusses the unique nature of the Giardia secretory system and implications of novel insights in the context of eukaryotic endomembrane organization and evolution.
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Keywords
- CYST WALL PROTEIN; VARIANT SURFACE PROTEIN; ENDOPLASMIC-RETICULUM; ENDOMEMBRANE SYSTEM; TRYPANOSOMA-BRUCEI; GENE-TRANSFER; LAMBLIA; APPARATUS; ORGANIZATION; EUKARYOTES
- Publisher's Version
- https://doi.org/10.1016/S1471-4922(03)00201-0
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Creation Date: 2003-10-01 12:00:00