Identification of a Golgi-localized UDP-N-acetylglucosamine transporter in Trypanosoma cruzi.

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Published in BMC Microbiol on November 21, 2015

Authors

Carlos Gustavo Baptista1, Elizabeth Cristina Rodrigues2, Patricia Morking3, Amanda Klinke4, Maria Luiza Zardo5, Maurílio José Soares6, Alessandra Melo de Aguiar7, Samuel Goldenberg8, Augusto Savio Peixoto Ramos9

Author Affiliations

1: Present address: Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-000, SP, Brazil. cgustavobaptista@gmail.com.
2: Present address: Departamento de Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-900, SP, Brazil. e.crodrigues89@gmail.com.
3: Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fiocruz Paraná, Curitiba, 81350-010, PR, Brazil. pmorking@gmail.com.
4: Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fiocruz Paraná, Curitiba, 81350-010, PR, Brazil. amandaklinke@hotmail.com.
5: Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fiocruz Paraná, Curitiba, 81350-010, PR, Brazil. malu_zardo@hotmail.com.
6: Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fiocruz Paraná, Curitiba, 81350-010, PR, Brazil. maurilio@fiocruz.br.
7: Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fiocruz Paraná, Curitiba, 81350-010, PR, Brazil. alessandra_aguiar@fiocruz.br.
8: Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fiocruz Paraná, Curitiba, 81350-010, PR, Brazil. sgoldenb@fiocruz.br.
9: Instituto Carlos Chagas, Fiocruz Paraná, Curitiba, 81350-010, PR, Brazil. aspramos@fiocruz.br.

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