Kristína Záhonová

The paper investigates the role of Argonaute in controlling viral replication in Leishmania martiniquensis, finding that its loss reduces viral RNA abundance and disrupts small RNA accumulation.

This study investigates the evolutionary and functional divergence of alternative oxidase (AOX) and AOX-like (AOX-L) proteins in trypanosomatids, revealing distinct origins and potential regulatory roles.

This study identifies Dicer-like 1 and Argonaute 1 as critical for controlling viral RNA levels in Leishmania guyanensis via a canonical RNA interference pathway.

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.

This study identifies two essential GP63 paralogues in Leishmania donovani that cooperatively support visceral infection and persistence through distinct mechanisms.

This study reconstructs an ancestral GTPase and finds it localized to both Golgi and plasma membrane, a feature retained in modern Arf1 proteins.

The paper shows that near-cognate tRNAs that promote stop codon readthrough form specific contacts with ribosomal proteins at the decoding site, with the anticodon stem length and structure influencing this interaction.