Compartmentation of phosphoglycerate kinase in Trypanosoma brucei plays a critical role in parasite energy metabolism.

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African trypanosomes compartmentalize glycolysis in a microbody, the glycosome. When growing in the mammalian bloodstream, trypanosomes contain only a rudimentary mitochondrion, and the first seven glycolytic enzymes, including phosphoglycerate kinase, are located in the glycosome. Procyclic trypanosomes, growing in the gut of tsetse flies, possess a fully developed mitochondrion that is active in oxidative...

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