Identifying the assembly pathway of cyanophage inside the marine bacterium using electron cryo-tomography
January 4, 2014
Thiswork comments on a study by Dai et al. (Nature 2013) that illustrates that electron cryo-tomography is an approach whereby one can capture directly structural snapshots of transient phage assembly intermediates during maturation process. Such analysis can be generalizable not only to human viruses in human cells but also various molecular machines undergoing biological processes.
Tracking autophagy during proliferation and differentiation of Trypanosoma brucei
December 26, 2013
This article provides insights into the function of autophagy, a cellular degradation and recycling pathway, in the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei.
What’s the role of autophagy in trypanosomes?
January 4, 2014
This article comments on Proto et al. (Microbial Cell, 2014), who report first insights into the molecular mechanism of autophagy in African trypanosomes by generating reporter bloodstream form cell lines.