CRISPR-Cas9 system: A new-fangled dawn in gene editing

D Gupta, O Bhattacharjee, D Mandal, MK Sen, D Dey… - Life sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Till date, only three techniques namely Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN), Transcription-Activator
Like Effector Nucleases (TALEN) and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic …

Disruption of Intracellular Calcium Homeostasis as a Therapeutic Target Against Trypanosoma cruzi

G Benaim, AE Paniz-Mondolfi, EM Sordillo… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
There is no effective cure for Chagas disease, which is caused by infection with the
arthropod-borne parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi. In the search for new drugs to treat Chagas …

A CRISPR Cas9 high-throughput genome editing toolkit for kinetoplastids

T Beneke, R Madden, L Makin… - Royal Society …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), CRISPR-associated
gene 9 (Cas9) genome editing is set to revolutionize genetic manipulation of pathogens …

Expanding the toolbox for Trypanosoma cruzi: A parasite line incorporating a bioluminescence-fluorescence dual reporter and streamlined CRISPR/Cas9 functionality for rapid …

FC Costa, AF Francisco, S Jayawardhana… - PLoS neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi causes Chagas disease, a major public
health problem throughout Latin America. There is no vaccine and the only drugs have …

Rapid, selection-free, high-efficiency genome editing in protozoan parasites using CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins

LC Soares Medeiros, L South, D Peng, JM Bustamante… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Trypanosomatids (order Kinetoplastida), including the human pathogens Trypanosoma cruzi
(agent of Chagas disease), Trypanosoma brucei,(African sleeping sickness), and …

Advances in the cellular biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology of acidocalcisomes

R Docampo - Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Acidocalcisomes are organelles conserved during evolution and closely related to the so-
called volutin granules of bacteria and archaea, to the acidocalcisome-like vacuoles of …

CRISPR in parasitology: not exactly cut and dried!

JM Bryant, S Baumgarten, L Glover, S Hutchinson… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
CRISPR/Cas9 technology has been developing rapidly in the field of parasitology, allowing
for the dissection of molecular processes with unprecedented efficiency. Optimization and …

IP3 receptor-mediated Ca2+ release from acidocalcisomes regulates mitochondrial bioenergetics and prevents autophagy in Trypanosoma cruzi

MA Chiurillo, N Lander, AE Vercesi, R Docampo - Cell Calcium, 2020 - Elsevier
In contrast to animal cells, the inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate receptor of Trypanosoma cruzi
(TcIP 3 R) localizes to acidocalcisomes instead of the endoplasmic reticulum. Here, we …

LeishGEdit: a method for rapid gene knockout and tagging using CRISPR-Cas9

T Beneke, E Gluenz - Leishmania: Methods and Protocols, 2019 - Springer
Postgenomic analyses of Leishmania biology benefit from rapid and precise methods for
gene manipulation. Traditional methods of gene knockout or tagging by homologous …

Different Roles of Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter Complex Subunits in Growth and Infectivity of Trypanosoma cruzi

MA Chiurillo, N Lander, MS Bertolini, M Storey… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Trypanosoma cruzi is the agent of Chagas disease, and the finding that this parasite
possesses a mitochondrial calcium uniporter (TcMCU) with characteristics similar to that of …