Meanings
adjectiveparaflagellar (not comparable)
- not comparableDescribing a fibrillar structure within the flagella of a protist.
We report here that partial disruption of either PFR1 or PFR2 in T. cruzi epimastigotes with the CRISPR/Cas9 system results in accumulation of PFR components at the tip of the flagella and subsequent loss of the paraflagellar rod structure with flagellar detachment from the cell body.
2015 July 21, Noelia Lander et al., “CRISPR/Cas9-Induced Disruption of Paraflagellar Rod Protein 1 and 2 Genes in Trypanosoma cruzi Reveals Their Role in Flagellar Attachment”, in mBio, volume 6, →DOI
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