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Image: Kinetoplast of Trypanosoma brucei

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Description: Trypanosoma brucei, Electron micrograph of centrin-depleted cells. (a) A typical control cell in this particular section shows single flagellum, pair of basal bodies, kinetoplast and nucleus. (b) TbCen2-depleted cells with multi basal bodies and the kinetoplast with enlarged size compared to the control in ‘a’. Scale bars, 500 nm. F, flagellum; B, basal body; K, kinetoplast; N, nucleus; P, flagellar pocket.
Author: Angamuthu Selvapandiyan, Praveen Kumar, Jeffrey L. Salisbury, Ching C. Wang, Hira L. Nakhasi
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