Affiliation:
1. Departments of Medicine
2. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont 05405
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Entamoeba histolytica
, the cause of amebiasis, is believed to have no continuous endoplasmic reticulum (ER), with ER functions occurring in vesicles. Here, using an ER-targeted green fluorescent protein fusion protein and fluorescence loss in photobleaching, we have unambiguously demonstrated the presence of a continuous ER compartment in living
E. histolytica
trophozoites.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Microbiology
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