The double‐edged sword in pathogenic trypanosomatids: the pivotal role of mitochondria in oxidative stress and bioenergetics

RFS Menna-Barreto… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The pathogenic trypanosomatids Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi, and Leishmania
spp. are the causative agents of African trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease, and …

Biology of human pathogenic trypanosomatids: epidemiology, lifecycle and ultrastructure

JCF Rodrigues, JLP Godinho, W De Souza - Proteins and Proteomics of …, 2013 - Springer
Leishmania and Trypanosoma belong to the Trypanosomatidae family and cause important
human infections such as leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and sleeping sickness …

How Trypanosoma cruzi deals with oxidative stress: Antioxidant defence and DNA repair pathways

A Machado-Silva, PG Cerqueira… - … Research/Reviews in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, is an obligatory intracellular
parasite with a digenetic life cycle. Due to the variety of host environments, it faces several …

Biophysical and Biochemical Comparison of Extracellular Vesicles Produced by Infective and Non-Infective Stages of Trypanosoma cruzi

L Retana Moreira, A Prescilla-Ledezma… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small lipid vesicles released by either any prokaryotic or
eukaryotic cell, or both, with a biological role in cell-to-cell communication. In this work, we …

Mitochondrial disfunction and ROS production are essential for anti-Trypanosoma cruzi activity of β-lapachone-derived naphthoimidazoles

ACS Bombaça, PG Viana, ACC Santos, TL Silva… - Free Radical Biology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Chagas disease is caused by the hemoflagellate protozoa Trypanosoma cruzi and is one of
the most important neglected tropical diseases, especially in Latin American countries …

Redox Balance Keepers and Possible Cell Functions Managed by Redox Homeostasis in Trypanosoma cruzi

AC Mesías, NJ Garg, MP Zago - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The toxicity of oxygen and nitrogen reactive species appears to be merely the tip of the
iceberg in the world of redox homeostasis. Now, oxidative stress can be seen as a two-sided …

Regulatory functions of hypoxia in host–parasite interactions: a focus on enteric, tissue, and blood protozoa

E DeMichele, O Sosnowski, AG Buret, T Allain - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Body tissues are subjected to various oxygenic gradients and fluctuations and hence can
become transiently hypoxic. Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) is the master transcriptional …

Reevaluating the Trypanosoma cruzi proteomic map: The shotgun description of bloodstream trypomastigotes

GVF Brunoro, MA Caminha, AT da Silva Ferreira… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Chagas disease is a neglected disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. This
kinetoplastid presents a cycle involving different forms and hosts, being trypomastigotes the …

Redesigned and reversed: architectural and functional oddities of the trypanosomal ATP synthase

O Gahura, C Hierro-Yap, A Zíková - Parasitology, 2021 - cambridge.org
Mitochondrial F-type adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthases are commonly introduced as
highly conserved membrane-embedded rotary machines generating the majority of cellular …

[HTML][HTML] Starvation and pH stress conditions induced mitochondrial dysfunction, ROS production and autophagy in Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes

Y Pedra-Rezende, MC Fernandes… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chagas disease is a neglected illness endemic in Latin America that mainly affects rural
populations. The etiological agent of Chagas disease is the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi …