Predicting the Proteins of Angomonas deanei, Strigomonas culicis and Their Respective Endosymbionts Reveals New Aspects of the Trypanosomatidae Family
Figure 7
Main metabolic exchanges between host and endosymbionts.
Schematic representation of the amino acids, vitamins, and cofactors exchanged between A. deanei and S. culicis and their respective symbionts. Dotted lines indicate pathways that have or might have contributions from both partners, whereas metabolites inside one of the circles, representing the symbiont or host, indicate that one partner holds candidate genes coding for enzymes of the whole biosynthetic pathway. *Candidate genes were only found for the symbiont of S. culicis and not for the symbiont of A. deanei. BCAA (branched-chain amino acids) are leucine, isoleucine and valine.