Sign in

Eva Nowack

@evanowack.bsky.social
241 followers 105 following 21 posts

Evolutionary cell biologist

PostsRepliesMedia
Eva Nowack @evanowack.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The symbiont-harboring trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei is Parasite of the Month. 🙂 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Short graphical abstract summarizing key facts about Angomonas: its habitat in the digestive tract of insects; the cellular organization of the flagellate containing a single cytoplasmic endsymbiont with associated glycosomes; synchronized cell cycles of host and endosymbiont; the discovery of endosymbiont-targeted host proteins (ETPs) by mass spectrometry; differential subcellular localization of the ETPs; and the endosymbiont division machinery of dual genetic origin.
4215
Eva Nowack @evanowack.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
✨X-ray crystallography reveals surprising twist in how proteins enter the unique photosynthetic organelles of Paulinella. The chromatophore targeting peptide (crTP) folds into a 3D structure, hinting that folded proteins cross peptidoglycan and inner membrane. (1/2) academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
crTP X-ray structure
32610
Eva Nowack @evanowack.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Out today: New nucleus-encoded component of the endosymbiont division machinery identified in the trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei. Congrats @anaymaurya.bsky.social and @rudycadenabioevo.bsky.social!!!🎉🎉🎉 1/2 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
294
Eva Nowack @evanowack.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Out today: Exciting intermediate between endosymbiont and organelle identified! Endosymbionts in Angomonas deanei lost nearly all bacterial cell division genes. Instead, we identified a host-encoded protein, ETP9, that became specialized for endosymbiont division. 1/2 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Angomonas deanei with flourescent-labeled nucleus and endosymbiont. ETP9 localizes at the endosymbiont division site.
58341