Use of Giardia, which appears to have a single nucleotide-sugar transporter for UDP-GlcNAc, to identify the UDP-Glc transporter of Entamoeba.

abstract：:Plasmepsins (PM), aspartic proteases of Plasmodium, comprises a family of ten proteins that perform critical functions in Plasmodium life cycle. Except VII and VIII, functions of the remaining plasmepsin members have been well characterized. Here, we have generated a mutant parasite lacking PM VII in Plasmodium berghe...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Mastan BS,Kumari A,Gupta D,Mishra S,Kumar KA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apicomplexan parasites utilize a peripheral membrane system called the inner membrane complex (IMC) to facilitate host cell invasion and parasite replication. We recently identified a novel family of Toxoplasma IMC Sub-compartment Proteins (ISP1/2/3) that localize to sub-domains of the IMC using a targeting mechanism ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Fung C,Beck JR,Robertson SD,Gubbels MJ,Bradley PJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the demonstration that the transport of melaminophenyl arsenical drugs in Trypanosoma brucei is dependent upon an unusual adenosine nucleoside transporter (Carter and Fairlamb, Nature 361 (1993) 173-175) we have investigated adenosine transport in the related parasite Trypanosoma equiperdum (Botat1.1) and a ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Barrett MP,Zhang ZQ,Denise H,Giroud C,Baltz T

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloned DNA fragments of the ribosomal RNA gene of Schistosoma mansoni hybridise strongly to Echinococcus DNA following restriction endonuclease and Southern transfer analysis. Individuals within a strain of E. granulosus exhibit identical patterns of hybridisation. However, the hybridisation patterns show significant ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： McManus DP,Simpson AJ

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apicomplexa parasite Toxoplasma gondii expresses two distinct proliferating cell nuclear antigens (PCNA) that exhibit distinct patterns of subcellular localization during tachyzoite growth. In all cell cycle phases, TgPCNA1 is concentrated in the nucleus, while TgPCNA2 is only concentrated in the nucleus during S-...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Guerini MN,Behnke MS,White MW

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum extensively modifies the infected red blood cell (RBC), resulting in changes in deformability, shape and surface properties. These alterations suggest that the RBC cytoskeleton is a major target for modification during infection. However, the molecular mechanisms leading to these changes are larg...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Shakya B,Penn WD,Nakayasu ES,LaCount DJ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex life cycles of many protozoan parasites require the ability to respond to environmental and developmental cues through regulated gene expression. Traditionally, parasitologists have investigated these mechanisms by identifying and characterizing proteins that are necessary for the regulated expression of t...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Militello KT,Refour P,Comeaux CA,Duraisingh MT

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies in this laboratory had shown that the malarial parasite can synthesize heme de novo and inhibition of the pathway leads to death of the parasite. It has been proposed that the pathway for the biosynthesis of heme in Plasmodium falciparum is unique involving three different cellular compartments, namely...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Nagaraj VA,Arumugam R,Prasad D,Rangarajan PN,Padmanaban G

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation of Babesia bovis merozoite surface antigens occurs among geographic strains of the parasite. In this and a concurrent report, we investigate this variation at the gene and protein level. Using a monoclonal antibody (mAb 23/70.174), B. bovis gene sequences were identified that encoded a surface epitope of a 4...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Jasmer DP,Reduker DW,Hines SA,Perryman LE,McGuire TC

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) networks of the insect trypanosomatid Crithidia fasciculata strain CF-C1 contain a nearly homogeneous population of kDNA minicircles as judged by restriction enzyme cleavage analysis. We have determined the entire nucleotide sequence of the major class of minicircles by analyzing M13 phage clone...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Sugisaki H,Ray DS

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The telomeric sequence cloned from Plasmodium berghei (see M. Ponzi et al. (1985) EMBO J. 4, 2991-2995) was tested for species specificity. A telomeric and a subtelomeric fragment of the cloned insert served as separate, labelled probes on pulsed field gradient electrophoretical patterns and on genomic digests from th...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Dore E,Pace T,Ponzi M,Scotti R,Frontali C

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the total RNA extracted from cultures of Plasmodium falciparum resolved two major RNA components with estimated molecular weights of 1.3 X 10(6) and 0.72 - 0.74 X 10(6). Oligo(dT)-cellulose column chromatography of the total cellular RNA indicates that more than 90% of the total r...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Vezza AC,Trager W

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P-glycoprotein gene amplification has been described in several drug-resistant parasitic protozoa. The first P-glycoprotein related gene described in Leishmania was ltpgpA, a gene frequently amplified in arsenite resistant Leishmania. Hybridization experiments indicated that ltpgpA was part of a gene family. In additi...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Légaré D,Hettema E,Ouellette M

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established that the ISO1 glucose transporter of Leishmania enriettii resides primarily in the flagellar membrane, whereas the ISO2 glucose transporter is located in the pellicular plasma membrane surrounding the cell body. This pronounced difference in subcellular targeting is conferred by the N...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Nasser MI,Landfear SM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tick-borne protozoan parasite, Babesia bovis is one of the causes of bovine babesiosis, an economically important disease of cattle in tropical and sub-tropical countries. Using the recently published genome sequence of the parasite, we developed a panel of eight mini- and micro-satellite markers and used these to...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Simuunza M,Bilgic H,Karagenc T,Syakalima M,Shiels B,Tait A,Weir W

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of 32Pi into organic phosphate by mitochondria of Cotugnia digonopora was supported maximally by malate. Fumarate and succinate induced lower but significant production of ATP. Pyruvate, alpha-ketoglutarate and oxalacetate proved to be poor substrates and citrate and isocitrate had no effect. A net phosp...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Pampori NA,Singh G,Srivastava VM

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared a total of 44 recognition sites for 12 restriction endonucleases on the 20 kilobase pair maxi-circle of kinetoplast DNA from nine Trypanosoma brucei stocks, four which are known to be infective to man (tow 'gambiense' and two 'rhodesiense' variants). In addition to five polymorphic sites, these DNAs d...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Borst P,Fase-Fowler F,Gibson WC

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asexual intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum were shown to have a single isoenzyme of malate dehydrogenase. This malate dehydrogenase was purified to apparent homogeneity using a three-step purification protocol. The parasite malate dehydrogenase had an apparent subunit molecular weight of 32 kDa, a pH optimum of 7...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Lang-Unnasch N

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promoter region of the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes of Leishmania amazonensis was characterised and the transcription start point, defined by primer extension, was shown to be a T residue, 1048 nucleotides upstream of the beginning of the 18S sequence. A repetitive element of 60 bp was identified in the intergenic s...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Uliana SR,Fischer W,Stempliuk VA,Floeter-Winter LM

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica is responsible for amoebic colitis and liver abscess in humans. Entamoeba dispar is a closely related, morphologically indistinguishable nonpathogenic species. The hexokinase (ATP:D-hexose 6-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.1) isoenzyme patterns distinguish the pathogenic and nonpathogenic species. B...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Kroschewski H,Ortner S,Steipe B,Scheiner O,Wiedermann G,Duchêne M

更新日期：2000-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Human infections from Plasmodium knowlesi present challenges to malaria control in Southeast Asia. P. knowlesi also offers a model for other human malaria species including Plasmodium vivax. P. knowlesi parasites can be cultivated in the laboratory, and their transformation is standardly performed by direct electropor...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Moraes Barros RR,Gibson TJ,Kite WA,Sá JM,Wellems TE

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six discrete phylogenetic lineages were recently identified in Trypanosoma cruzi, on the basis of multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) characterisation. The objective of the present study was to develop specific PCR-based markers for the identification of each of the six lineag...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Brisse S,Dujardin JC,Tibayrenc M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apicomplexa parasites use complex cell cycles to replicate that are not well understood mechanistically. We have established a robust forward genetic strategy to identify the essential components of parasite cell division. Here we describe a novel temperature sensitive Toxoplasma strain, mutant 13-20C2, which growth a...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Suvorova ES,Lehmann MM,Kratzer S,White MW

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：:With the rapid spread of drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum, the development of new antimalarials is an urgent need. As malaria parasites live in a highly pro-oxidant environment, their anti-oxidant defences have frequently been suggested as candidate drug targets. A key point in such defences is the prod...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Aparicio IM,Marín-Menéndez A,Bell A,Engel PC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laminin is a major constituent of the basal lamina surrounding the midgut of the malaria vectors that has been implicated in the development of the Plasmodium oocyst. In this report we describe the cloning of the Anopheles gambiae gene encoding the laminin gamma 1 polypeptide and follow its expression during mosquito ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Vlachou D,Lycett G,Sidén-Kiamos I,Blass C,Sinden RE,Louis C

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubulin-binding cofactor C stimulates GTPase activity and contributes to the release of the heterodimeric α/β-tubulin from a super-complex of tubulin monomers and two ancillary cofactors. We have determined the 2.2 Å resolution crystal structure of the C-terminal domain of tubulin-binding cofactor C from Leishmania ma...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Barrack KL,Fyfe PK,Finney AJ,Hunter WN

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three species of blood fluke from the genus Cardicola are known to parasitize and cause disease in Bluefin Tunas--C. forsteri, C. orientalis, and C. opisthorchis. Although initially believed to be separated by geography and host specificity, recent identification of at least two Cardicola spp. concurrently present wit...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Polinski M,Hamilton DB,Nowak B,Bridle A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta subunits (beta1, beta2, and beta5) of 20S proteasome and HslV/ClpQ are ATP-dependent threonine proteases present in eukaryotes and prokaryotes, respectively that control levels of key regulatory proteins in the cell. The orthologue of prokaryotic HslV protease in Plasmodium falciparum (PfHslV) is a novel drug...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Ramasamy G,Gupta D,Mohmmed A,Chauhan VS

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00