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Cultivation and in vitro cloning or procyclic culture forms of Trypanosoma brucei in a semi-defined medium. Short communication

R Brun, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1979 - 
- Vol. 36, Iss: 3, pp 289-292
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This article is published in Acta Tropica.The article was published on 1979-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1143 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Trypanosoma brucei & Procyclin.

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A tightly regulated inducible expression system for conditional gene knock-outs and dominant-negative genetics in Trypanosoma brucei.

TL;DR: A dual-promoter approach is developed, for expressing highly toxic products and generating conditional gene knock-outs, using back-to-back constitutive T7 and tetracycline-responsive PARP promoters to drive expression of the selectable marker and test gene, respectively.
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A simple colorimetric method to screen drug cytotoxicity against Leishmania using the dye Alamar Blue.

TL;DR: A quantitative colorimetric assay using the oxidation-reduction indicator Alamar Blue was developed to measure cytotoxicity of compounds against the protozoan parasite Leishmania and permits a simple, reproducible and reliable method for screening antileishmanial drugs.
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The cell division cycle of Trypanosoma brucei brucei: timing of event markers and cytoskeletal modulations.

TL;DR: The timing and order of events occurring within the cell division cycle of Trypanosoma brucei has been derived from analyses of the proportion of a given cell type occurring witin an exponentially growing culture.
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Timing of nuclear and kinetoplast DNA replication and early morphological events in the cell cycle of Trypanosoma brucei

R. Woodward, +1 more
TL;DR: Immunofluorescent detection of 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine-substituted DNA is used to determine the timing of initiation and the duration of nuclear and kinetoplast S-phases within the procyclic stage of the Trypanosoma brucei cell cycle and provides detection of the earliest known cell cycle event in T. Brucei.
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Four histone variants mark the boundaries of polycistronic transcription units in Trypanosoma brucei

TL;DR: It is suggested that histone modifications and histone variants play crucial roles in transcription initiation and termination in trypanosomes and that destabilization of nucleosomes by hist one variants is an evolutionarily ancient and general mechanism of transcription initiation, demonstrated in an organism in which general pol II transcription factors have been elusive.
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