Nikiforos Drakoulis

The paper shows that TgmRHel processes coxI mRNA precursors generated from a recombining mitochondrial genome into a mature transcript, essential for parasite survival.

The paper identifies mRSiC, an HPR protein in Toxoplasma gondii, as essential for stabilizing mitochondrial sRNAs and maintaining rRNA fragments, respiratory chain function, and parasite proliferation.

This study identifies small RNAs from mitochondrial recombination sites in T. gondii that are integrated into mitoribosomes, suggesting a dual role for mitochondrial sequences as both mRNA and rRNA.