The Trypanosoma brucei dihydroxyacetonephosphate acyltransferase TbDAT is dispensable for normal growth but important for synthesis of ether glycerophospholipids

• Rachel Zufferey ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zufferer@stjohns.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1200-3914

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• Karim Pirani,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Melanie Cheung-See-Kit,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

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• Sungsu Lee,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

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• Tyler A. Williams,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

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• Daniel G. Chen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

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• Md. Faruk Hossain

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, United States of America

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