Tritrichomonas foetus Cell Division Involves DNA Endoreplication and Multiple Fissions.

ABSTRACT: Tritrichomonas foetus and Trichomonas vaginalis are extracellular flagellated parasites that inhabit animals and humans, respectively. Cell division is a crucial process in most living organisms that leads to the formation of 2 daughter cells from a single mother cell. It has been assumed that T. vaginalis and T. foetus modes of reproduction are exclusively by binary fission. However, here, we showed that multinuclearity is a phenomenon regularly observed in different T. foetus and T. vaginalis strains in standard culture conditions. Additionally, we revealed that nutritional depletion or nutritional deprivation led to different dormant phenotypes. Although multinucleated T. foetus are mostly observed during nutritional depletion, numerous cells with 1 larger nu

SUBMITTER: Iriarte LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100903 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature