EICOSANOIC ACIDS IN TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI

Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX

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DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): This proposal is based on the hypothesis that African trypanosomes utilize a variety of signaling pathways to coordinate life cycle events. During the course of studies on the control of Ca+ currents in T. brucei, they discoved key components of an eicosanoic acid pathway. The present proposal will examine how trypanosomes regulate Ca+/eicosanoic acid signals.