A novel, non-neuronal acetylcholinesterase of schistosome parasites is essential for definitive host infection

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Schistosomes are long-lived parasitic worms that infect >200 million people globally. The intravascular life stages are known to display acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity internally as well as, somewhat surprisingly, on external tegumental membranes. Originally it was hypothesized that a single gene (SmAChE1 in Schistosoma mansoni) encoded both forms of the enzyme. Here, we demonstrate that a second gene,...

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