Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a disease of major economic importance in Sub-Saharan Africa. In eastern and southern Africa. Here we analysed clinical isolates of T brucei rhodensiense, resistant to suramin by shotgun proteomics . And identified parasite proteins whose expression is associat...
A superfamily of invariant surface glycoproteins (ISGs) populates the African trypanosome surface, one of which, ISG75, is implicated in uptake of the century-old drug suramin. We disrupted the ISG75 gene locus encoding an array of six ISG75 paralogs on chromosome V by CRISPR/Cas9 knockout. Here we ...
