Differentiation of Trypanosoma brucei bloodstream trypomastigotes from long slender to short stumpy-like forms in axenic culture.

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：: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：:[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：:TgPrx2 represents a recently discovered cytosolic 1-Cys peroxiredoxin (Prx) from the intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Over-expression of the respective gene confers protection against H(2)O(2), suggesting that the protein possesses peroxidase activity. According to the current nomenclature eukaryotic typical ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Deponte M,Becker K

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii has a single tubular mitochondrion. During infection, it recruits the host cell's mitochondria abutting to the intracellular vacuole, that contains the parasites. The respective contribution of host and parasitic mitochondria in the intracellular growth o...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Toursel C,Dzierszinski F,Bernigaud A,Mortuaire M,Tomavo S

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Ascaris muscle mitochondria the major respiratory chain-linked phosphorylation activity is accomplished by a NADH-linked reduction of fumarate to succinate. Oxygen can also be employed as a terminal electron acceptor via a cyanide- and salicyl-hydroxamate-resistant terminal oxidase. As in fumarate-dependent electro...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Köhler P,Bachmann R

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clones which were selected from a Toxoplasma gondii expression library with the immune serum from a T. gondii-infected rabbit, were further screened using milk and intestinal secretions from mice which had been orally infected with T. gondii cysts. The gene products of several clones reacted strongly with milk IgA and...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Mevelec MN,Chardès T,Mercereau-Puijalon O,Bourguin I,Achbarou A,Dubremetz JF,Bout D

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：: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：:The exoglycosidase, beta-N-acetyl-D-hexosaminidase was purified 600-fold from the muscle-stage larvae (L1) of Trichinella spiralis. On sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), the purified enzyme-active fraction contained 4 polypeptides with apparent molecular weights of 100,000, 68,000, 5...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Rhoads ML

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of polymorphism and the allelic distribution of 2 major Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface antigens (MSA1 and MSA2) have been analysed in clinical isolates from Colombia. DNA was prepared directly from patients' blood and used in PCR reactions to amplify block 2 of MSA1 and the central region from MSA2...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Snewin VA,Herrera M,Sanchez G,Scherf A,Langsley G,Herrera S

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:Proteins in malaria parasites (Plasmodium falciparum) isolated from a patient in Thailand before treatment, and after recrudescence of infection subsequent to mefloquine treatment, were compared by two dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE) analysis. Nine 'pre-treatment' and six 'recrudescent' clones...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Pinswasdi C,Thaithong S,Beale GH,Fenton B,Webster HK,Pavanand K

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that vaccination with two low molecular mass excretory secretory (ES) antigens of 15 and 24 kDa, respectively, afforded a substantial degree of protection against Haemonchus contortus to sheep. In vitro cultivation of the parasite usually yields a limited amount of these proteins and therefore, recom...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Schallig HD,van Leeuwen MA,Verstrepen BE,Cornelissen AW

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expressed sequence tag (EST) dataset of Toxoplasma gondii provides a wealth of information towards gene discovery. The complete cDNA and genomic sequence of EST tgc050 locus shows that it contains five copies of the conserved thrombospondin (TSP)-like motif present in a number of molecules with adhesive properties...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Wan KL,Carruthers VB,Sibley LD,Ajioka JW

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood-stage malaria vaccine candidates include surface proteins of the merozoite. Antibodies to these proteins may either block essential steps during invasion or render the merozoite susceptible to phagocytosis or complement-mediated degradation. Structural information on merozoite surface proteins complexed to antib...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Dekker C,Uthaipibull C,Calder LJ,Lock M,Grainger M,Morgan WD,Dodson GG,Holder AA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocyte invasion by malaria parasites requires specific receptor-ligand interactions. Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium knowlesi are completely dependent on binding the Duffy blood group antigen to invade human erythrocytes. P. knowlesi invades rhesus erythrocytes by multiple pathways using the Duffy antigen as well...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Singh AP,Puri SK,Chitnis CE

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Trypanosoma brucei flagellum controls motility and is crucial for cell polarity and division. Unique features of trypanosome motility suggest that flagellar beat regulation in this organism is unusual and worthy of study. The flagellar axoneme, required for motility, has a structure that is highly conserved among ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Springer AL,Bruhn DF,Kinzel KW,Rosenthal NF,Zukas R,Klingbeil MM

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：:Seven beta-naphthylamine-linked peptides were tested as substrates for a previously described thiol proteinase of adult Schistosoma mansoni. The enzyme was not active on carbobenoxy-arginyl-arginyl-4-methoxy-2-naphthylamide and carbobenzoxy-alanyl-arginyl-arginyl-4-methoxy-2-naphthylamide. Enzyme activity was maximal ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Dresden MH,Rutledge ML,Chappell CL

更新日期：1981-11-01 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：:Actin-related proteins (Arps) constitute a family of eukaryotic cytoskeletal proteins involved in such diverse events as cell motility, cytokinesis, vesicle transport, and chromatin remodelling. Previously, in a study of Plasmodium berghei gene expression in ookinetes and oocysts, we detected stage-specific increased ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Siden-Kiamos I,Schüler H,Liakopoulos D,Louis C

更新日期：2010-10-01 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 influence of pH on the activity of purified pyruvate kinase (ATP:pyruvate 2-O-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.40) from Trypanosoma brucei has been studied. The Km for the coenzyme ADP is pH-dependent and shows the involvement of a dissociable group on the free enzyme with a pKa of 6.5-6.7. The cooperative interaction...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Flynn IW,Bowman IB

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose is a major source of energy and carbon in promastigotes of Leishmania mexicana, and its uptake is mediated by three glucose transporters whose genes are encoded within a single cluster. A null mutant in which the glucose transporter gene cluster was deleted by homologous gene replacement was generated previous...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Rodriguez-Contreras D,Feng X,Keeney KM,Bouwer HG,Landfear SM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoserine phosphatase (PSP) catalyzes the third step of the phosphorylated serine biosynthetic pathway, and occurred multiple times in evolution, while enzymes catalyzing the first and second steps in the pathway have single respective origins. In the present study, we examined the existence of PSP among genus Ent...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Chiba Y,Makiuchi T,Jeelani G,Nozaki T

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：: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 minichromosomes M210 and M230 of Leishmania major are linear amplicons which have an inverted repeat structure. We report here the molecular cloning of the megabasic chromosome region where M210 and M230 recombination points are located. The analysis of this chromosomal region revealed a 374 bp fragment directly r...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Ortiz G,Segovia M

更新日期：1996-11-25 00:00:00