The Kinetoplast of Trypanosomatids: From Early Studies of Electron Microscopy to Recent Advances in Atomic Force Microscopy

Figure 8

Atomic force microscopy analysis of the isolated kDNA network of trypanosomatids. (a–c) Network of C. fasciculata and (d–f) network of A. deanei. The entire networks are shown in (a) and (d). Details of the networks are shown in (b), (c), (e), and (f). (c, f) Clustering of DNA molecules forming rosettes is observed in the periphery of the network (arrows). The scale bars correspond to 1 μm (a, d), 0.5 μm (b, e), or 0.25 μm (c, f). (a), (b), and (c) reproduced from [50].

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