Jack Daniel Sunter

Life without heterotrimeric kinesins: trypanosomatids use a combination of homodimeric kinesin-2 motors to drive intraflagellar transport

This study shows trypanosomatids use homodimeric kinesin-2 motors KIN2A and KIN2B for intraflagellar transport, with KIN2B being essential and KIN2A having a more limited role.

Discovery of a novel flagellar filament system underpinning Leishmania adhesion to surfaces

The paper investigates the role of FAZ proteins in Leishmania adhesion, showing their deletion impairs adhesion and identifies KIAP2 as a key component of novel flagellar filaments.

Dramatic reduction in trypanosome motility occurs without large-scale changes to paraflagellar rod ultrastructure

The paper identifies a PFR protein essential for outer domain assembly and shows motility impairment without major structural changes to the PFR.

Nucleolar targeting in an early-branching eukaryote suggests a general physicochemical mechanism for ribosome protein sorting

The paper shows nucleolar targeting in Trypanosoma brucei is mediated by positive charge, contributing to sorting of mitochondrial and cytoplasmic ribosome proteins.