Ku80 is involved in telomere maintenance but dispensable for genomic stability in Leishmania mexicana.
Ester PolákováAmanda T S AlbanazAlexandra ZakharovaTatiana S NovozhilovaEvgeny S GerasimovVyacheslav YurchenkoPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2021)
Ablation of the Ku proteins in L. mexicana triggers telomere elongation, but does not have an adverse impact on genome integrity.