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• W2951824672 abstract "Abstract To complete its infectious cycle, the protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma brucei , must navigate through diverse tissue environments in both its tsetse fly and mammalian hosts. This is hypothesized to be driven by yet unidentified chemotactic cues. Prior work has shown that parasites engaging in social motility in vitro alter their trajectory to avoid other groups of parasites, an example of negative chemotaxis. However, movement of T. brucei toward a stimulus, positive chemotaxis, has so far not been reported. Here we show that upon encountering E. coli, socially behaving T. brucei parasites exhibit positive chemotaxis, redirecting group movement toward the neighboring bacterial colony. This response occurs at a distance from the bacteria and involves active changes in parasite motility. By developing a quantitative chemotaxis assay, we show that the attractant is a soluble, diffusible signal dependent on actively growing E. coli . Time-lapse and live video microscopy revealed that T. brucei chemotaxis involves changes in both group and single cell motility. Groups of parasites change direction of group movement and accelerate as they approach the source of attractant, and this correlates with increasingly constrained movement of individual cells within the group. Identification of positive chemotaxis in T. brucei opens new opportunities to study mechanisms of chemotaxis in these medically and economically important pathogens. This will lead to deeper insights into how these parasites interact with and navigate through their host environments. Importance Almost all living things need to be able to move, whether it is toward desirable environments or away from danger. For vector-borne parasites, successful transmission and infection require that these organisms be able to sense where they are and use signals from their environment to direct where they go next, a process known as chemotaxis. Here we show that Trypanosoma brucei , the deadly protozoan parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, can sense and move toward an attractive cue. To our knowledge, this is the first report of positive chemotaxis in these organisms. In addition to describing a new behavior in T. brucei , our findings enable future studies of how chemotaxis works in these pathogens, which will lead to deeper understanding of how they move through their hosts and may lead to new therapeutic or transmission-blocking strategies." @default.
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• W2951824672 date "2019-06-11" @default.
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• W2951824672 title "Identification of positive chemotaxis in the protozoan pathogen<i>Trypanosoma brucei</i>" @default.
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