Review Article

A Brief View of the Surface Membrane Proteins from Trypanosoma cruzi

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Mucin family. Schematic representation of mature proteins of mucin families TcMUC, found in bloodstream trypomastigotes, and TcSMUG, found in epimastigotes and metacyclic trypomastigotes. Signal peptide (); protein fingerprints (white boxes); hypervariable region (---); threonine-rich region (black boxes) and glycosylphosphatidylinositol- (GPI-) anchor signal (shadowed boxes). Image based on Buscaglia and Frasch [30, 60].