Publications

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Filosa, J.N., Berry, C.T., Ruthel, G., Beverley, S.M., Warren, W.C., Tomlinson, C., Myler, P.J., Dudkin, E.A., Povelones, M.L.* and Povelones, M.*, 2019. Dramatic changes in gene expression in different forms of Crithidia fasciculata reveal potential mechanisms for insect-specific adhesion in kinetoplastid parasites. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 13(7), p.e0007570. *corresponding authors

Budzak, J., Kerry, L.E., Aristodemou, A., Hall, B.S., Witmer, K., Kushwaha, M., Davies, C., Povelones, M.L., McDonald, J.R., Sur, A. and Myler, P.J., 2019. Dynamic colocalization of 2 simultaneously active VSG expression sites within a single expression-site body in Trypanosoma brucei. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(33), pp.16561-16570.

DiMaio, J.*, Ruthel, G.*, Cannon, J. J., Malfara, M. F., & Povelones, M. L. (2018). The single mitochondrion of the kinetoplastid parasite Crithidia fasciculata is a dynamic network. PLoS one, 13(12), e0202711. *co-first authors

Maree, J. P., Povelones, M. L., Clark, D. J., Rudenko, G., Patterton, H. G. (2017) Well-positioned nucleosomes punctuate polycistronic pol II transcription units and flank silent VSG gene arrays in Trypanosoma brucei. Epigenetics and Chromatin, 10:14, doi: 10.1186/s13072-017-0121-9.

Povelones, M. L., (2014) Beyond replication: division and segregation of mitochondrial DNA in kinetoplastids. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 196 (1) 53-60.

Povelones, M. L., Tiengwe, C., Gluenz, E., Gull, K., Englund, P. T., Jensen, R. E. (2013) Mitochondrial shape and function in trypanosomes requires the outer membrane protein, TbLOK1. Molecular Microbiology. 87 (4), 713-29.

Povelones, M.L., Gluenz, E., Dembek, M., Gull, K., Rudenko, G. (2012) Histone H1 plays a role in heterochromatin formation and VSG expression site silencing in Trypanosoma brucei. PLoS Pathogens, 8 (11), e1003010.

Clayton, A.M.*, Guler, J. L.*, Povelones, M. L.*, Gluenz, E., Gull, K. Smith, T.K., Jensen, R.E., Englund, P. T. (2011) Depletion of mitochondrial acyl carrier protein in bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei causes a kinetoplast segregation defect. Eukaryotic Cell, 10 (3), 286-92 *co-first authors.

Gluenz, E.*, Povelones, M. L.*, Englund, P. T., Gull, K. (2011) The kinetoplast duplication cycle in Trypanosoma brucei is orchestrated by cytoskeleton-mediated cell morphogenesis. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 31 (5), 1012-21 *co-first authors

Liu, B., Wang, J., Yaffe, N., Lindsay, M.E., Zhao, Z., Zick, A., Shlomai, J., Englund, P.T. (2009) Trypanosomes have six mitochondrial DNA helicases with one controlling kinetoplast maxicircle replication.  Molecular Cell, 35 (4), 490-501.

Lindsay, M.E.*, Gluenz, E.*, Gull, K., Englund, P.T. (2008) A new function of Trypanosoma brucei mitochondrial topoisomerase II is to maintain kinetoplast DNA network topology. Molecular Microbiology, 70 (6), 1465-76 *co-first authors

Li, Z., Lindsay, M.E., Motyka, S.A., Englund, P.T., Wang, C.C., (2008) Identification of a bacterial-like HslVU protease in the mitochondria of Trypanosoma brucei and its role in mitochondrial DNA replication. PLoS Pathogens, 4 (4): e1000048

Zhao, Z., Lindsay, M.E., Roy Chowdhury, A., Robinson, D.R., Englund, P.T., (2008) p166, a link between the trypanosome mitochondrial DNA and flagellum, mediates genome segregation, EMBO Journal, 27 (1), 143-54.

Englund, P.T., Agbo, E.E., Lindsay, M.E., Liu, B, Liu, Y, Motyka, S.A., Yildirir, G., Zhao, Z, (2005) RNAi libraries and kinetoplast DNA, Transactions of the Biochemical Society, 33, 1409-12.

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