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Apicoplast biogenesis mediated by ATG8 requires the ATG12–ATG5-ATG16L and SNAP29 complexes in Toxoplasma gondii
12 Sept 2022
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In apicomplexan parasites, the macroautophagy/autophagy machinery is repurposed to maintain the plastid-like organelle apicoplast. Previously, we showed that in Toxoplasma and Plasmodium, ATG12 interacts with ATG5 in a non-covalent manner, in contrast to the covalent interaction in most organisms. However, it remained unknown whether apicomplexan parasites have functional orthologs of ATG16L1, a protein that is...
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