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Trypanosomatida

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Trypanosomatida is a group of kinetoplastid unicellular organisms distinguished by having only a single flagellum. The name is derived from the Greek trypano (borer) and soma (body) because of the corkscrew-like motion of some trypanosomatid species. All members are exclusively parasitic, found primarily in insects.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> A few genera have life-cycles involving a secondary host, which may be a vertebrate, invertebrate or plant. These include several species that cause major diseases in humans.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Some trypanosomatida are intracellular parasites, with the important exception of Trypanosoma brucei.

Medical importanceEdit

The three major human diseases caused by trypanosomatids are; African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei and transmitted by tsetse flies<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>), South American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease, caused by T. cruzi and transmitted by triatomine bugs), and leishmaniasis (a set of trypanosomal diseases caused by various species of Leishmania transmitted by sandflies<ref name="Measure vectors' attraction to auxiliary hosts">

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EvolutionEdit

The family is known from fossils of the extinct genus Paleoleishmania preserved in Burmese amber dating to the Albian (100 mya) and Dominican amber from the Burdigalian (20–15 mya) of Hispaniola.<ref name="Poinar2008">Template:Cite journal</ref> The genus Trypanosoma is also represented in Dominican amber in the extinct species T. antiquus.<ref name="Poinar2005">Template:Cite journal</ref>

TaxonomyEdit

Three genera are dixenous (two hosts in the life cycle) – Leishmania, Phytomonas and Trypanosoma, while The remainder are monoxenous (one host in the life cycle).Template:Citation needed Paratrypanosoma appears to be the first evolving branch in this order. Fifteen genera are recognised in the Trypanosomatidae and there are three subfamilies – Blechomonadinae, Leishmaniinae and Strigomonadinae.Template:Clarification needed The genera in the subfamily Strigomonadinae are characterised by the presence of obligatory intracellular bacteria of the Kinetoplastibacterium genus.<ref name="pmid23345457"/>

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Trypanosoma equiperdum
File:Leishmania donovani 01.png
Leishmania donovani
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Crithidia luciliae
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Phytomonas serpens
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Angomonas deanei

Life cycleEdit

Some trypanosomatids only occupy a single host, while many others are heteroxenous: they live in more than one host species over their life cycle. This heteroxenous life cycle typically includes the intestine of a bloodsucking insect and the blood and/or tissues of a vertebrate. Rarer hosts include other bloodsucking invertebrates, such as leeches,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and other organisms such as plants. Different species go through a range of different morphologies at different stages of the life cycle, with most having at least two different morphologies. Typically the promastigote and epimastigote forms are found in insect hosts, trypomastigote forms in the mammalian bloodstream and amastigotes in intracellular environments. Template:Cn

Among commonly studied examples, T. brucei, T. congolense, and T. vivax are extracellular, while T. cruzi and Leishmania spp. are intracellular.<ref name = "Tissue-Tropism-in-Parasitic-Diseases" /> Trypanosomatids with intracellular stages express Template:Visible anchor proteins on their surfaces.<ref name = "Tissue-Tropism-in-Parasitic-Diseases" /> de Paiva et al., 2015 illuminates δ-amastins' roles in intracellular success.<ref name = "Tissue-Tropism-in-Parasitic-Diseases" > Template:Cite journal</ref>

Sexual reproductionEdit

Trypanosomatids that cause globally known diseases such leishmaniasis (Leishmania species), African trypanosomiasis referred to as sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma brucei), and Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi) were found to be capable of meiosis and genetic exchange.<ref name = Silva2022>Template:Cite journal</ref> These findings indicate the capability for sexual reproduction in the Trypanosomatida.<ref name = Silva2022/>

MorphologiesEdit

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Six main morphologies

A variety of different morphological forms appear in the life cycles of trypanosomatids, distinguished mainly by the position, length and the cell body attachment of the flagellum. The kinetoplast is found closely associated with the basal body at the base of the flagellum and all species of trypanosomatid have a single nucleus. Most of these morphologies can be found as a life cycle stage in all trypanosomatid genera however certain morphologies are particularly common in a particular genus. The various morphologies were originally named from the genus where the morphology was commonly found, although this terminology is now rarely used because of potential confusion between morphologies and genus. Modern terminology is derived from the Greek; "mastig", meaning whip (referring to the flagellum), and a prefix which indicates the location of the flagellum on the cell. For example, the amastigote (prefix "a-", meaning no flagellum) form is also known as the leishmanial form as all Leishmania have an amastigote life cycle stage.Template:Cn

  • Amastigote (leishmanial).<ref name="Hoare1966">Template:Cite journal</ref> Amastigotes are a common morphology during an intracellular lifecycle stage in a mammalian host. All Leishmania have an amastigote stage of the lifecycle. Leishmania amastigotes are particularly small and are among the smallest eukaryotic cells. The flagellum is very short, projecting only slightly beyond the flagellar pocket.
  • Template:Visible anchor (leptomonad).<ref name="Hoare1966" /> The promastigote form is a common morphology in the insect host. The flagellum is found anterior of nucleus emerging directly from the anterior cell body. The kinetoplast is located in front of the nucleus, near the anterior end of the body.
  • Template:Visible anchor (crithidial).<ref name="Hoare1966" /> Epimastigotes are a common form in the insect host and Crithidia and Blastocrithidia, both parasites of insects, exhibit this form during their life cycles. The flagellum exits the cell anterior of nucleus and is connected to the cell body for part of its length by an undulating membrane. The kinetoplast is located between the nucleus and the anterior end.
  • Template:Visible anchor (trypanosomal).<ref name="Hoare1966" /> This stage is characteristic of the genus Trypanosoma in the mammalian host bloodstream as well as infective metacyclic stages in the fly vector. In trypomastigotes the kinetoplast is near the posterior end of the body, and the flagellum lies attached to the cell body for most of its length by an undulating membrane.
  • Template:Visible anchor (herpetomonad).<ref name="Hoare1966" /> A rarer morphology where the flagellum posterior of nucleus, passing through a long groove in the cell.
  • Template:Visible anchor.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> A morphotype where the flagellum does not extend beyond the deep flagellar pocket.
  • LeishmaniaMexicana Amastigote SEM.jpg

    Amastigote: False colour SEM micrograph of amastigote form Leishmania mexicana. The cell body is shown in orange and the flagellum is in red. 219 pixels/μm.

  • LeishmaniaMexicana Promastigote SEM.jpg

    Promastigote: False colour SEM micrograph of promastigote form Leishmania mexicana. The cell body is shown in orange and the flagellum is in red. 119 pixels/μm.

  • TrypanosomaBrucei ProcyclicTrypomastigote SEM.jpg

    Trypomastigote: False colour SEM micrograph of procyclic form Trypanosoma brucei. The cell body is shown in orange and the flagellum is in red. 84 pixels/μm.

Other featuresEdit

Notable characteristics of trypanosomatids are the ability to perform trans-splicing of RNA and possession of glycosomes, where much of their glycolysis is confined to. The acidocalcisome, another organelle, was first identified in trypanosomes.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Template:AnchorBacterial endosymbiontEdit

Template:Automatic taxobox Six species of trypanosomatids are known to carry an additional proteobacterial endosymbiont, termed TPE (trypanosomatid proteobacterial endosymbionts). These trypansomatids (Strigomonas oncopelti, S. culicis, S. galati, Angomonas desouzai, and A. deanei) are in turn known as SHTs, for symbiont-harboring trypanosomatids. All such symbionts have a shared evolutionary origin and are classified in the Candidatus genus "Kinetoplastibacterium".<ref name="pmid23345457">Template:Cite journal</ref>

As with many symbionts, the bacteria have a much reduced genome compared to their free-living relatives of genera Taylorella and Achromobacter. (GTDB finds the genus sister to Proftella, a symbiont of Diaphorina citri.)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Reflecting their inability to live alone, they have lost genes dedicated to essential biological functions, relying on the host instead. They have modified their division to become synchronized with the host. In S. culicis at least, the TPE helps the host by synthesizing heme<ref name="pmid23345457"/> and producing essential enzymes, staying tethered to the kinetoplast.<ref name=":4">Template:Cite journal</ref>

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