Structural analysis of the acetaldehyde dehydrogenase activity of Entamoeba histolytica alcohol dehydrogenase 2 (EhADH2), a member of the ADHE enzyme family.

abstract：:Studies measuring the glycolytic intermediate and adenine nucleotide concentrations in Trypanosoma brucei metabolising glucose either aerobically or under conditions where glycerol-3-phosphate oxidase is inactive have shown the following: 1. Inhibition with 0.5 mM salicylhydroxamic acid (SHAM) accurately simulates ana...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Hammond DJ,Bowman IB

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strongyloides and related genera are advantageous subjects for transgenesis in parasitic nematodes, primarily by gonadal microinjection as has been used with Caenorhabditis elegans. Transgenesis has been achieved in Strongyloides stercoralis and in Parastrongyloides trichosuri, but both of these lack well-adapted, con...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Li X,Shao H,Junio A,Nolan TJ,Massey HC Jr,Pearce EJ,Viney ME,Lok JB

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoadherence of infected erythrocytes is a hallmark of Plasmodium falciparum infection and a key determinant in the particular virulence of this species. Infected erythrocytes bind a variety of host receptors but certain adhesion traits are associated with more severe disease. A large, diverse protein family named P....

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Kraemer SM,Gupta L,Smith JD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel cDNA was isolated from a library of Cysticercus cellulosae by immunological screening. Sequence analysis reveals that it has typical annexin structures. However, since its N-terminus is distinct and the core domain only has 32-44% amino acid identity to the tetrads of other annexins, the cDNA encodes a member ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Hongli Y,Shuhan S,Ruiwen C,Yingjun G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eimeria are the causative agents of coccidosis, a disease which is of world wide economic importance in the poultry industry. Immunity resulting from infection is species-specific and both antibody and cell-mediated responses have been implicated. As an initial step in the development of a genetically-engineered vacci...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Clarke LE,Messer LI,Greenwood NM,Wisher MH

更新日期：1987-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of Schistosoma mansoni proteins (18-22 kDa, pI 5.3-5.8) are biosynthesized in juvenile worms and immunoprecipitated by antibodies uniquely present in protective Fischer rat antiserum. A cDNA clone, lambda gt11-40, expressing epitopes common to this protein family was used to obtain a genomic DNA clone, by hyb...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： el-Sherbeini M,Ramadan N,Bostian KA,Knopf PM

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among several protease inhibitors tested, only leupeptin was found to modify qualitatively the processing of P126, a major antigen of the parasitophorous vacuole of Plasmodium falciparum, and to inhibit the release of merozoites. Whereas P126 is normally processed upon merozoite release into 2 polypeptides of 50 and 7...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Debrabant A,Delplace P

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modifications of Class I aldolases from Trypanosoma brucei, rabbit muscle and Staphylococcus aureus with carboxypeptidase A, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and cysteine-specific reagents revealed the following differences between the three homologous enzymes. Aldolase from S. aureus was not affected by any of the...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Callens M,Opperdoes FR

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of carbamoylphosphate synthase, aspartate transcarbamoylase, dihydroorotase, orotate phosphoribosyl transferase and orotidine-5'-phosphate decarboxylase, five of the six enzymes of pyrimidine biosynthesis, have been measured in Crithidia fasciculata, Trypanosoma cruzi, Leishmania major, Trichomonas vagi...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Hill B,Kilsby J,Rogerson GW,McIntosh RT,Ginger CD

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichuris arvicolae and T. muris are gastro-intestinal nematodes of respectively arvicoline and murine rodents. We aim to investigate the ecology of these Trichuris species using population genetics. We sampled nematodes from rodents trapped in the East of France. After confirming the species identification of the nem...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Deter J,Galan M,Charbonnel N,Cosson JF

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaerobic, parasitic protist, Trichomonas vaginalis, is characterized by the absence of mitochondria and the presence of double membrane bound organelles called hydrogenosomes. Succinyl-coenzyme A synthetase is a hydrogenosomal enzyme which catalyzes the formation of ATP via substrate-level phosphorylation. We hav...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Lahti CJ,Bradley PJ,Johnson PJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have successfully transfected Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites with constructs containing ferredoxin sequences fused to the reporter gene luciferase. We have determined the conditions and parameters necessary to maximise transient luciferase expression in our system. Our optimal construct gave values of 268 x 10(...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Gilchrist CA,Streets HL,Ackers JP,Hall R

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly all mitochondrial RNA polymerase genes identified to date are encoded in the nucleus and have similarities to T3 and T7 bacteriophage RNA polymerases. Some chloroplast genes are also transcribed by T3/T7 phage-like RNA polymerases, raising the possibility that the apicomplexan parasites, which have both a mitoc...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Li J,Maga JA,Cermakian N,Cedergren R,Feagin JE

更新日期：2001-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last years an expanding family of small RNAs (i.e. microRNAs, siRNAs and piRNAs) was recognized as key players in diverse forms of gene silencing and chromatin organization. Effectors functions of these small RNAs are achieved through ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes containing at their center an Argonaute/P...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Garcia-Silva MR,Frugier M,Tosar JP,Correa-Dominguez A,Ronalte-Alves L,Parodi-Talice A,Rovira C,Robello C,Goldenberg S,Cayota A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosomes are peroxisome-like organelles present in trypanosomatid pathogens. These organelles compartmentalize glycolysis, among other reactions, and are essential in both bloodstream and procyclic form Trypanosoma brucei. Peroxins (PEXs) are proteins necessary for biogenesis of peroxisomes and glycosomes. In each a...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Banerjee SK,Kessler PS,Saveria T,Parsons M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polyprotein composed of multiple units arranged in direct tandem arrays has been identified in parasitic and free living nematodes. Analysis of previously cloned units from the Dirofilaria immitis polyprotein antigen (DiPA) indicated the units were nearly identical but here we demonstrate that they segregate into tw...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Poole CB,Hornstra LJ,Benner JS,Fink JR,McReynolds LA

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent investigations into quinoline and phenanthrene methanol resistance in Plasmodium falciparum have described a linkage between amplification of the mdr homologue pfmdr1 and decreased susceptibility to mefloquine (MQ) and halofantrine (HF). We have examined the current theories on cross-resistance patterns and pfm...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Ritchie GY,Mungthin M,Green JE,Bray PG,Hawley SR,Ward SA

更新日期：1996-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocyte Binding Antigen-175, EBA-175, is a soluble merozoite stage parasite protein which binds to glycophorin A surface receptors on human erythrocytes. We have expressed two conserved cysteine-rich regions, region II and region VI, of this protein as soluble His-tagged polypeptides in i...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Ockenhouse CF,Barbosa A,Blackall DP,Murphy CI,Kashala O,Dutta S,Lanar DE,Daugherty JR

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were made of the effects of diamphenethide-amine on glucose transport, glycogen breakdown, adenine nucleotides, metabolites and excretory products in both parenchymal and bile duct flukes in vitro and in bile duct flukes in vivo. The most consistent and pronounced effect observed was an elevation of malate lev...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Edwards SR,Campbell AJ,Sheers M,Moore RJ,Montague PE

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of pyrimethamine and sulfadoxine against two strains of Plasmodium falciparum has been studied in vitro by a radioisotopic technique. Low level antagonism of pyrimethamine resulted from the inclusion of p-aminobenzoic acid, p-aminobenzoylglutamic acid or folic acid in the test medium. Sulfadoxine activity...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Watkins WM,Sixsmith DG,Chulay JD,Spencer HC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of two fragments derived from the variable region of the kinetoplast maxicircle of Trypanosoma brucei has been determined. One fragment (1334 nucleotides, situated immediately upstream of the 12S and 9S ribosomal RNA genes) consists of non-repetitious DNA, which does not hybridize to other maxicircle regi...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： de Vries BF,Mulder E,Brakenhoff JP,Sloof P,Benne R

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:Infection with larval trematodes has been shown to inhibit several snail-host defences, including hemocyte phagocytosis, cytotoxicity, motility, and adherence. Certain plasma factors which mediate snail defence responses, and which may be produced by host hemocytes, also appear to be altered by these parasites. In thi...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Lodes MJ,Connors VA,Yoshino TP

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 25-kb CpFAS1 gene from Cryptosporidium parvum has been engineered and expressed as five individual maltose-binding protein (MBP)-fusion proteins: an N-terminal loading unit, three fatty acyl elongation modules, and a C-terminal reductase. Enzymatic activities of all domains (except the reductase) were individually a...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Zhu G,Li Y,Cai X,Millership JJ,Marchewka MJ,Keithly JS

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic infections are a widespread health problem and research of novel anthelmintic compounds is of the utmost importance. In this study we performed a virtual screening campaign by coupling ligand-based pharmacophore, homology modeling and molecular docking. The virtual screening campaign was conducted using a jo...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Stevanovic S,Marjanović DS,Trailović SM,Zdravković N,Perdih A,Nikolic K

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This study on isolated cercarial bodies demonstrates that the biological transformation from cercaria to schistosomulum and the biochemical transition from an aerobic to an anaerobic energy metabolism are separate processes, which are not necessarily linked. The metabolic transition depends on the external glucose con...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Horemans AM,Tielens AG,van den Bergh SG

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene which overexpresses a 36-kDa protein (p36) in tunicamycin-resistant Leishmania was mapped by transfection and overexpression to the upstream region of the drug maker in the extrachromosomal amplicon. Complete sequencing of this region revealed a single open reading frame of about 1 kb. Authenticity of the clone...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Liu X,Chang KP

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Plasmodium berghei (NK 65) was followed during syringe transmission in mice for over 120 passages after the last complete cycle, while the following parameters were monitored: (a) capacity to infect mosquitoes, inducing oocyst formation; (b) presence in the peripheral blood of morphologically identifiable ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Birago C,Bucci A,Dore E,Frontali C,Zenobi P

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylcholine is the most abundant phospholipid in the membranes of the human parasite Leishmania. The metabolic pathways leading to its biosynthesis are likely to play a critical role in parasite development and survival and may offer a good target for antileishmanial chemotherapy. Phosphatidylcholine synthesis...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Zufferey R,Mamoun CB

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an intracellular parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi is exposed to reactive oxygen species. The study of the proteins involved in the hydroperoxide detoxification cascade, tryparedoxin peroxidase included, may lead to the development of a more specific chemotherapy for Chagas'disease. In this work, the involvement of TcCPX...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Finzi JK,Chiavegatto CW,Corat KF,Lopez JA,Cabrera OG,Mielniczki-Pereira AA,Colli W,Alves MJ,Gadelha FR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00