The complete sequence of a Plasmodium malariae SSUrRNA gene and its comparison to other plasmodial SSUrRNA genes.

abstract：:The gender of cercarial larvae can only be determined using molecular methods. End point PCR methods that amplify repetitive markers on the W chromosome of the female (ZW) parasites have been developed, but sometimes results are ambiguous or incorrect. To more effectively distinguish sexes, and to determine why end po...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Chevalier FD,Le Clec'h W,Alves de Mattos AC,LoVerde PT,Anderson TJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi presents high genetic diversity and parasite isolates show remarkable differences in biological parameters. In this study, we evaluated whether DNA microarrays containing CL Brener cDNAs can be used for comparative genomics and for the analysis of gene expression in T. cruzi. We constructed a prototy...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Baptista CS,Vêncio RZ,Abdala S,Valadares MP,Martins C,de Bragança Pereira CA,Zingales B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protease from Plasmodium falciparum was purified 150 fold by high performance liquid chromatography on a TSK-G-3000 SW exclusion column. The enzyme is not retained during pressure filtration with an Amicon PM10 membrane but is retained by a YM5 membrane. The molecular weight of the protease is less than 10,000, base...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Vander Jagt DL,Hunsaker LA,Campos NM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic helminths release molecules into their environment, which are generally referred to as excretory-secretory products or ES. ES derived from a wide range of nematodes, trematodes and cestodes have been studied during the past 30-40 years, their characterization evolving from simple biochemical procedures such ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Harnett W

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme pterin-4a-carbinolamine dehydratase (PCD) is important for the recycling of pterins within eukaryotic cells. A recombinant expression system for PCD from the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii has been prepared, the protein purified and crystallised. Single crystal X-ray diffraction methods have produc...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Cameron S,Fyffe SA,Goldie S,Hunter WN

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：: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：:Trophozoites of Entamoeba invadens were able to ingest glucopolysaccharides and metabolize them. An activity capable of degrading these substrates was purified to apparent homogeneity. The enzyme was identified as beta-amylase (alpha-1,4-D-glucan maltohydrolase EC 3.2.1.2): It was active against glycogen, amylose and ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Serafimova F,Franz A,Werries E

更新日期：1996-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclophilins are a large family of proteins implicated in folding, transport and regulation of other proteins and are potential drug targets in cancer and in some viral and parasitic infections. The functionality of cyclophilins appears to depend on peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase (foldase) and/or molecular ch...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Marín-Menéndez A,Monaghan P,Bell A

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:The ADP ribosylation factors (Arfs) are a highly conserved subfamily of the Ras small GTPases with crucial roles in vesicle budding and membrane trafficking. Unlike in other eukaryotes, the orthologue of Arf1 in the host bloodstream form of Trypanosoma brucei is essential for the maintenance of endocytosis. In contras...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Price HP,Stark M,Smith B,Smith DF

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:We have demonstrated that bradyzoites return to the tissue-cyst stage by a developmental pathway that is indistinguishable from that initiated by sporozoites. Mature bradyzoites, like sporozoites from oocysts, were non-proliferative as they contained uniform 1N DNA contents, and replication occurred only in parasites ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Radke JR,Guerini MN,Jerome M,White MW

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the substrate specificity requirements of recombinant cysteine peptidases from Plasmodium falciparum, falcipain-2 (FP-2) and falcipain-3 (FP-3), using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) peptides as substrates. Systematic modifications were introduced in the lead sequence Abz-KLRSSKQ-EDDnp (Abz=or...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Cotrin SS,Gouvêa IE,Melo PM,Bagnaresi P,Assis DM,Araújo MS,Juliano MA,Gazarini ML,Rosenthal PJ,Juliano L,Carmona AK

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine aminopeptidases (LAP; EC 3.4.11.1) are a group of metalloexopeptidases, which catalyze the sequential removal of leucine amino acids from the N-termini of the polypeptides or proteins. In this study, we identified two novel genes that encode LAPs of Clonorchis sinensis (CsLAP1 and CsLAP2) and characterized the...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Kang JM,Ju HL,Ju JW,Sohn WM,Kim TS,Bahk YY,Hong SJ,Na BK

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conserved amongst all eukaryotes is a family of mitochondrial carrier proteins (SLC25A) responsible for the import of various solutes across the inner mitochondrial membrane. We previously reported that the human parasite Trypanosoma brucei possesses 26 SLC25A proteins (TbMCPs) amongst which two, TbMCP11 and TbMCP8, w...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Gao F,Voncken F,Colasante C

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their ability to help newly synthesized proteins to fold, molecular chaperones are also recognized for their participation in cellular processes ranging from protein trafficking, signal transduction, differentiation and development. Novel roles for this group of proteins have come to light through studi...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Acharya P,Kumar R,Tatu U

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hookworms (Ancylostoma duodenale, Necator americanus) are a major cause of malnutrition and anemia, particularly in children, and high worm burdens can lead to stunted growth and mental retardation. Mass drug administration (MDA) with benzimidazole (BZ) anthelmintics has the potential to greatly reduce morbidity...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Schwenkenbecher JM,Albonico M,Bickle Q,Kaplan RM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heartworm disease caused by Dirofilaria immitis affects canine and feline hosts. Moreover, the parasite can infect humans, causing pulmonary dirofilariosis. Most affected dogs have patent infections with circulating microfilariae in peripheral blood, although infected dogs sometimes develop occult infections character...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Oleaga A,Pérez-Sánchez R,Pagés E,Marcos-Atxutegi C,Simón F

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tachyzoites and the tissue cysts containing bradyzoites of Neospora caninum and Toxoplasma gondii, respectively, are difficult to distinguish morphologically. Specific antigens have been identified in T. gondii tachyzoites and bradyzoites, some of which are stage-specifically expressed, and different functions hav...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Sonda S,Fuchs N,Connolly B,Fernandez P,Gottstein B,Hemphill A

更新日期：1998-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Opisthorchis viverrini is the causative agent of human opisthorchiasis in Thailand and long lasting infection with the parasite has been correlated with the development of cholangiocarcinoma. In this work we have molecularly characterized the first member of a protein family carrying two DM9 repeats in this parasite (...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Labbunruang N,Phadungsil W,Tesana S,Smooker PM,Grams R

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malarial merozoites use an array of ligands, including members of the Reticulocyte Binding Like (RBL) super-family of invasion proteins, to identify and invade erythrocytes. RBL family members are large Type I membrane anchored proteins expressed at the invasive end of merozoites that share homology with the Reticuloc...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Rayner JC,Huber CS,Galinski MR,Barnwell JW

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The karyotype and chromosomes of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have been well characterized in recent years. Here we present karyotype maps of the three other human malaria species, P. vivax, P. malariae and P. ovale. Chromosomes of these species were found to be of significantly higher molecular we...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Carlton JM,Galinski MR,Barnwell JW,Dame JB

更新日期：1999-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of kinetoplast DNA minicircles in Crithidia fasciculata occurs by a unidirectional mechanism involving continuous synthesis of one strand (L strand) and discontinuous synthesis of the complementary strand (H strand). L-strands are initiated by RNA priming at alternate origins (A and B) resulting in daughte...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Hines JC,Engel ML,Zhao H,Ray DS

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of Leishmania mexicana cysteine proteases that differ from those previously found in this protozoon are described. The enzymes characteristically have a preference for peptidyl substrates with a phenylalanyl-valyl-arginyl moiety, do not hydrolyse gelatin in substrate-sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gels...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Robertson CD,Coombs GH

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the cloned Echinococcus multilocularis DNA probe pAL1 was determined in order to simplify and improve the sensitivity of a diagnostic assay through the application of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The insert-specific oligonucleotides BG1 and BG2 define a 2.6-kb fragment in the genomic...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Gottstein B,Mowatt MR

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) are the main membrane phospholipids (PLs) of Plasmodium parasites and can be generated by the de novo (Kennedy) CDP-choline and CDP-ethanolamine pathways and by the CDP-diacylglycerol dependent pathway. The Kennedy pathways initiate from exogenous choline and ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Déchamps S,Wengelnik K,Berry-Sterkers L,Cerdan R,Vial HJ,Gannoun-Zaki L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant proteins and synthetic peptides representing various sequences of gp82, a surface glycoprotein of Trypanosoma cruzi metacyclic trypomastigotes implicated in mammalian cell invasion, were used in this study aiming at the identification of the domain(s) of this molecule required for interaction with target c...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Santori FR,Dorta ML,Juliano L,Juliano MA,da Silveira JF,Ruiz RC,Yoshida N

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies were affinity purified from crude antiserum by elution from the 24 kDa region of preparative one-dimensional Western blots containing immobilized adult Schistosoma mansoni inner bilayer membrane proteins. They were shown to be specific for a single acidic polypeptide complex, Smgp24, following immunoblottin...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Karcz SR,Barnard BJ,Podesta RB

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat shock response was studied as a model for control of gene expression and protein synthesis in Giardia lamblia. Cultured trophozoites were metabolically labelled with [35S]methionine, and proteins were analysed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and fluorography. A temperature shift from 37 degrees C to...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Lindley TA,Chakraborty PR,Edlind TD

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00