The kinetic properties and sensitivities to inhibitors of lactate dehydrogenases (LDH1 and LDH2) from Toxoplasma gondii: comparisons with pLDH from Plasmodium falciparum.

abstract：:The dsRNA virus which infects some strains of Giardia lamblia has been purified and characterized with respect to its effect on growth of the parasite. Extensive purification of the virus from G. lamblia growth medium was accomplished by Millipore filtration and two successive CsCl gradient centrifugations. The purifi...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Miller RL,Wang AL,Wang CC

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival of Onchocerca volvulus, a pathogenic human filarial parasite, is likely to depend upon the detoxification activities of the glutathione S-transferases (GSTs). The 24 kDa O. volvulus GST, OvGST2, was expressed in a bacterial system and the recombinant protein was purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatogra...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Liebau E,Wildenburg G,Brophy PM,Walter RD,Henkle-Dührsen K

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adults of Onchocerca volvulus and Onchocerca gibsoni were identically fractionated into a surface-enriched fraction, a phosphate buffered saline (PBS) extract and a PBS insoluble-detergent soluble fraction. Glycoproteins were prepared from these extracts and all fractions were examined by the Western blot technique us...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Cabrera Z,Parkhouse RM

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two dimensional electrophoresis has been used to examine protein variation in clones of two Plasmodium falciparum isolates. Variant forms of 12 proteins were detected. Five genetically distinct parasite types were identified in one isolate, and two in the second isolate. Examination of uncloned parasites using this te...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Fenton B,Walker A,Walliker D

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of drug-resistant Leishmania species is a significant problem in several countries. A comparative proteomic analysis of antimony-susceptible and antimony-resistant Leishmania braziliensis (LbSbR) and Leishmania infantum chagasi (LcSbR) lines was carried out using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Matrangolo FS,Liarte DB,Andrade LC,de Melo MF,Andrade JM,Ferreira RF,Santiago AS,Pirovani CP,Silva-Pereira RA,Murta SM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylosuccinate synthetase (AdSS) catalyses the Mg(2+) dependent formation of adenylosuccinate from IMP and aspartate, the reaction being driven by the hydrolysis of GTP to GDP. All characterized AdSS thus far exhibit a random kinetic mechanism. We present here kinetic evidence that unlike all other AdSS, Plasmodium ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Raman J,Mehrotra S,Anand RP,Balaram H

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocyte invasion by malaria parasites is a multi-step process requiring specific molecular interactions between merozoites and erythrocyte surface receptors. Human Duffy blood group protein is the receptor for Plasmodium vivax merozoite invasion to red blood cells. The cognate parasite ligand for Duffy protein is ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Xu L,Niu J,Chaudhuri A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycoproteins of 12-28 kD from Taenia solium metacestodes provide a high specificity and sensitivity for the serological diagnosis of the central nervous system infection, neurocysticercosis. Their widespread use as antigens for routine serological assays will require their production in large and reproducible amo...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Obregón-Henao A,Gil DL,Gómez DI,Sanzón F,Teale JM,Restrepo BI

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two proteins were previously described in the excretory-secretory products (ES) collected from Dirofilaria immitis during the molt from the third stage to the fourth stage in vitro. The two proteins were purified using cation exchange and reverse phase HPLC. During the purification of these two proteins, a third prote...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Frank GR,Grieve RB

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism controlling transcription at several telomeric expression sites for variable surface glycoprotein (VSG) genes in Trypanosoma brucei is unknown. Most VSG genes in expression sites have a region 5' of the gene lacking restriction enzyme sites. This 'barren region' is involved in recombination events which ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Shah JS,Young JR,Kimmel BE,Iams KP,Williams RO

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The body's defense against schistosome infection can take many forms. For example, upon developing acute schistosomiasis, patients often have fever coinciding with larval maturation, migration and early oviposition. As the infection becomes established, the parasite comes under oxidative stress generated by the host i...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Aragon AD,Imani RA,Blackburn VR,Cunningham C

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Leishmania GP63 major surface protein gene family encodes multiple isoforms which differ predominantly in the carboxyterminal region. We have isolated 4 full-length gp63 cDNA clones derived from stationary-phase promastigote RNA of a cloned isolate of Leishmania guyanensis, a member of the braziliensis complex. Th...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Steinkraus HB,Greer JM,Stephenson DC,Langer PJ

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface membrane proteins of viable merozoites of Plasmodium chabaudi were iodinated by the Iodogen method and analysed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Thirteen surface membrane proteins ranging from 22 to 270 kDa were thus identified. Most of these proteins could be immunoprecipitated by...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Franco da Silveira J,Falanga PB,Pereira da Silva L

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of structural conservation of the Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite surface protein gene, STARP, recently characterized in the T9/96 clone, has been analyzed using the polymerase chain reaction. Results from Ivory Coast and Thai clones, field isolates originating from Brazil and Kenya and laboratory-maintain...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Fidock DA,Sallenave-Sales S,Sherwood JA,Gachihi GS,Ferreira-da-Cruz MF,Thomas AW,Druilhe P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most organisms rDNA transcription ceases under conditions of growth stress. However, we have earlier shown that pre-rRNA accumulates during encystation in Entamoeba invadens. We labeled newly-synthesized rRNA during encystation, with [methyl-(3)H] methionine in the presence of chitinase to enable uptake of isotope....

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Ojha S,Ahamad J,Bhattacharya A,Bhattacharya S

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lectins comprise a family of related proteins that mediate essential cell functions through binding to carbohydrates. Within this protein family, C-type lectins are defined by the requirement of calcium for optimal biologic activity. Using reverse transcription PCR, a cDNA corresponding to a putative C-type lectin has...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Brown AC,Harrison LM,Kapulkin W,Jones BF,Sinha A,Savage A,Villalon N,Cappello M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[14C]Artemisinin was taken up by Plasmodium falciparum in culture and concentrated in hemozoin. In vitro, hemin and artemisinin were found to undergo a chemical reaction forming two major products which were isolated by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The m/z values of the two products were 856 and 871....

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Hong YL,Yang YZ,Meshnick SR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania have a digenetic lifecycle, alternating between the promastigote and amastigote stages. The extracellular promastigote resides within a sandfly vector, while the obligate intracellular amastigote stage replicates in the phagolysosome of mammalian host macrophages. Adaptation...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Murray A,Fu C,Habibi G,McMaster WR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha and beta tubulin genes of Leishmania major were cloned and used to study the genomic organization, chromosomal location and transcription of tubulin genes in L. major. The number of beta tubulin isogenes was determined by hybridization of probes representing the 5' and 3' ends of the cloned beta tubulin cDNA...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Spithill TW,Samaras N

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major proteolytic activity of Trypanosoma cruzi is a cathepsin L-like cysteine protease expressed in all stages of the parasite. As an initial step in identifying possible functions of this enzyme in the life cycle of T. cruzi, and examining its potential as a target for rational drug design, two fluoromethyl keto...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Harth G,Andrews N,Mills AA,Engel JC,Smith R,McKerrow JH

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strongyloides stercoralis and S. ratti are intestinal parasitic nematodes infecting rats and humans, respectively. Both present extraordinary life cycles comprising a free-living generation in addition to parasitic stages. In search of molecules possibly involved in parasite-host interaction, we performed mass spectro...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Tazir Y,Steisslinger V,Soblik H,Younis AE,Beckmann S,Grevelding CG,Steen H,Brattig NW,Erttmann KD

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial ATPase of Leishmania donovani was characterized using digitonin-permeabilized promastigotes and the results were compared with those from isolated mitochondria. Maximum mitochondrial ATPase activity was obtained in promastigotes permeabilized with digitonin at a final concentration of 20 microM and the s...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Das A

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi attaches and invades a large variety of mammalian cells by receptor-mediated interactions, one of them involving the binding of parasite trans-sialidase to host sialyl receptors. Three proteoglycan-deficient mutants of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were used to probe the role of host heparin and ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Herrera EM,Ming M,Ortega-Barria E,Pereira ME

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of RNA interference (RNAi) is exceedingly useful for knocking down the expression of a specific mRNA in African trypanosomes and other organisms for the purpose of examining the function of its gene. However, when we attempted to apply RNAi in the Latin American trypanosome, Trypanosoma cruzi, to diminis...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： DaRocha WD,Otsu K,Teixeira SM,Donelson JE

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometry (EPR) techniques revealed a complex set of redox components in intact respiring cells of Tritrichomonas foetus, an aerotolerant anaerobic protozoon which lacks mitochondria. One of the two main systems of terminal respiration of this organism is the hydrogenosomal system, w...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Ohnishi T,Lloyd D,Lindmark DG,Müller M

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum digests vast amounts of hemoglobin within an acidic food vacuole (FV). Four homologous aspartic proteases participate in hemoglobin degradation within the FV. Plasmepsin (PM) I and II are thought to initiate degradation of the native hemoglobin molecule. PM IV and histo-aspartic...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Banerjee R,Francis SE,Goldberg DE

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) of Trypanosoma brucei is the most abundant GPI-anchored protein expressed on any cell, and is an essential virulence factor. To determine what structural features affect efficient expression of VSG, we made a series of mutations in two ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Wang J,Böhme U,Cross GA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylum Nematoda comprises a diverse group of roundworms that includes parasites of vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants. Human-parasitic nematodes infect more than one billion people worldwide and cause some of the most common neglected tropical diseases, particularly in low-resource countries [1]. Parasitic nem...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Gang SS,Hallem EA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 476 bp fragment of female-specific Schistosoma mansoni genomic DNA, clone W1, represents a degenerative repeat present in more than 500 copies per female genome, and may be part of the constitutive heterochromatin of the W chromosome. The cloning method described can be used as a general approach for isolating sex-s...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Webster P,Mansour TE,Bieber D

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding the small subunit rRNA (SSUrRNA) has been isolated from the human parasite, Plasmodium malariae. The gene has been sequenced. It contains conserved and variable regions which conform to patterns established for other eukaryotic SSUrRNA genes. Comparisons with other SSUrRNA genes from Plasmodium species...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Goman M,Mons B,Scaife J

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00