Nutrient Acquisition and Attachment Strategies in Basal Lineages: A Tough Nut to Crack in the Evolutionary Puzzle of Apicomplexa

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BARDŮNEK VALIGUROVÁ Andrea FLORENT Isabelle

Rok publikování 2021
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Microorganisms
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Přírodovědecká fakulta

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www https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071430
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071430
Klíčová slova apical complex; attachment; epimerite; feeder organelle; mucron; myzocytosis; nutrition; parasitophorous vacuole/sac; pores; trophozoite
Popis Apicomplexa are unicellular eukaryotes that parasitise a wide spectrum of invertebrates and vertebrates, including humans. In their hosts, they occupy a variety of niches, from extracellular cavities (intestine, coelom) to epicellular and intracellular locations, depending on the species and/or developmental stages. During their evolution, Apicomplexa thus developed an exceptionally wide range of unique features to reach these diversified parasitic niches and to survive there, at least long enough to ensure their own transmission or that of their progeny. This review summarises the current state of knowledge on the attachment/invasive and nutrient uptake strategies displayed by apicomplexan parasites, focusing on trophozoite stages of their so far poorly studied basal representatives, which mostly parasitise invertebrate hosts. We describe their most important morphofunctional features, and where applicable, discuss existing major similarities and/or differences in the corresponding mechanisms, incomparably better described at the molecular level in the more advanced Apicomplexa species, of medical and veterinary significance, which mainly occupy intracellular niches in vertebrate hosts.
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