Parasitology: Peculiar lipid production.

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    • Abstract:
      The article features the parasite Trypanosoma brucei, responsible for the African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness. According to the World health Organization, about 50,000 people die due this disease every year. The parasite survives in the blood stream by creating a lipid coating on its body. Most organisms of this type synthesize fatty acids using type I or type II fatty-acid syntheses, where as these parasites reportedly make it with a series of enzymes called elongases.