Molecular interactions of Leishmania promastigote surface protease with human alpha 2-macroglobulin.

abstract：:The Giardia lamblia genome consists of 12 Mb divided among 5 chromosomes ranging in size from approximately 1 to 4 Mb. The assembled contigs of the genotype A1 isolate, WB, were previously mapped along the 5 chromosomes on the basis of hybridization of plasmid clones representing the contigs to chromosomes separated b...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Perry DA,Morrison HG,Adam RD

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Plasmodium falciparum P-glycoprotein homologue 1 (PGH1) is structurally similar to several members of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily of membrane transporters. We have examined whether the nucleotide binding domains predicted from the deduced amino sequence are functional by photoaffinity labeling of pu...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Karcz SR,Galatis D,Cowman AF

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congopain and cruzipain, the major cysteine proteinases from Trypanosoma congolense and Trypanosoma cruzi, were compared for their activities towards a series of new, sensitive fluorogenic substrates of the papain family of cysteine proteinases and for their sensitivity to inhibition by cystatins and related biotinyla...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Chagas JR,Authie E,Serveau C,Lalmanach G,Juliano L,Gauthier F

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EP and GPEET procyclins are the major surface glycoproteins of Trypanosoma brucei in the midgut of tsetse flies (Glossina spp.). The procyclin genes are located at the beginning of polycistronic transcription units and are followed by at least one procyclin-associated gene (PAG). The EP/PAG1 locus on one copy of chrom...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Haenni S,Renggli CK,Fragoso CM,Oberle M,Roditi I

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:We have examined changes in the relative synthesis of individual proteins in promastigotes of Leishmania major subjected to decreasing serum levels in vitro. We observed increases in the relative synthesis of the putative heat-shock proteins of 82 and 70 kDa and of proteins of 79 and 41 kDa but decreases in the synthe...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Toye P,Remold H

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:Cryptosporidium parvum is a protozoan parasite of the intestinal epithelium that has caused numerous outbreaks of diarrheal illness in humans. During our studies of the host immune response to C. parvum infection, we noted that two of the immunodominant surface antigens of the sporozoite stage of the parasite readily ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Priest JW,Xie LT,Arrowood MJ,Lammie PJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even at the present age of whole-organism analysis, e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics, the biological roles of many proteins remain unresolved. Classified among the proteins of unknown function is a family of proteins harboring repeats of the DM9 domain, a 60-75 amino acids motif first described in a sma...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Phadungsil W,Smooker PM,Vichasri-Grams S,Grams R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both patent and prepatent adult Hymenolepis diminuta excreted 20-hydroxyecdysone into the culture medium when maintained in vitro. Patent worms also excreted ecdysone and comparatively large quantities of unidentified immunoreactive material of a relatively apolar nature. This latter material was shown to be depleted ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Mercer JG,Munn AE,Arme C,Rees HH

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification and characterization of a recombinant cDNA clone, designated OV9M, expressing an antigen present in Onchocerca volvulus infective larvae and adult stages is described. Clone OV9M was identified by screening a lambda gt11 cDNA expression library derived from adult O. volvulus mRNA using pooled rabbit...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Irvine M,Huima T,Prince AM,Lustigman S

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：:Malaria parasites possess a de novo heme synthetic pathway. Interestingly, this pathway is dispensable during the blood stages of development in mammalian hosts. The assembly of the two most important hemeproteins, cytochromes c and c1, is mediated by cytochrome heme lyase enzymes. Plasmodium spp. possess two cytochro...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Posayapisit N,Songsungthong W,Koonyosying P,Falade MO,Uthaipibull C,Yuthavong Y,Shaw PJ,Kamchonwongpaisan S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsporidia are highly adapted eukaryotic intracellular parasites that infect a variety of animals. Microsporidia contain no recognisable mitochondrion, but recently have been shown to have evolved from fungi and to possess heat shock protein genes derived from mitochondria. These findings make it clear that microsp...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Fast NM,Keeling PJ

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ADHE family of enzymes are bifunctional acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH)/alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) enzymes that probably arose from the fusion of genes encoding separate ALDH and ADH enzymes. Here we have used the Entamoeba histolytica alcohol dehydrogenase 2 (EhADH2) enzyme as a prototype to analyze the struct...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Chen M,Li E,Stanley SL Jr

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface of the erythrocyte undergoes a number of modifications during infection by Plasmodium falciparum. These modifications are critical for pathogenesis of severe disease and the acquisition of host immunity through their role in interactions between the host and the parasite and in antigenic variation. Our kno...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Craig A,Scherf A

更新日期：2001-07-01 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

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：:The genus Cryptosporidium includes several species of intestinal protozoan parasites which multiply in intestinal epithelial cells. The impact of this infection on the transcriptome of cultured host cells was investigated using DNA microarray hybridizations. The expression of 14 genes found to be consistently up- or d...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Yang YL,Serrano MG,Sheoran AS,Manque PA,Buck GA,Widmer G

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bloodstream forms of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei lack spectrally detectable cytochromes and satisfy energy requirements mainly by glycolysis. When infected blood is ingested by the tse-tse fly vector, the bloodstream form cells differentiate to procyclic forms that have fully functional mitochondria....

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Priest JW,Hajduk SL

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of the ecdysone receptor (EcR) during development and molting has been thoroughly investigated in some arthropods such as insects but rarely in crustacean copepods such as the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis (L. salmonis) (Copepoda, Caligidae). The salmon louse is an ectoparasite on Atlantic salmon t...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Sandlund L,Nilsen F,Male R,Dalvin S

更新日期：2016-08-01 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

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：:Gene expression and its regulation was studied in the rat tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta, during strobilization. RNAs extracted from the different developmental stages of the parasite were translated in vitro in a rabbit reticulocyte lysate system. Two-dimensional patterns of the translational products were compared w...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Siddiqui AA,Karcz SR,Podesta RB

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apicomplexan Toxoplasma gondii replicates by endodyogeny, in which replicated organelles assemble into nascent daughter buds within the maternal parasite. The mechanisms governing this complex sequence are not understood. We now report that the kinase inhibitor 3-methlyadenine (3-MA) efficiently blocks T. gondii r...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Wang Y,Karnataki A,Parsons M,Weiss LM,Orlofsky A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two short DNA segments were isolated by screening of a lambda gt11 library from Plasmodium falciparum schizont cDNA with an antiserum against the 140 kDa protein, which confers protective immunity to monkeys. The segments were used to identify a genomic fragment which carries the entire coding sequence for a protein o...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Knapp B,Hundt E,Nau U,Küpper HA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During blood-stage infection, malaria parasites export numerous proteins to the host erythrocyte. The Poly-Helical Interspersed Sub-Telomeric (PHIST) proteins are an exported family that share a common 'PRESAN' domain, and include numerous members in Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium knowlesi. In ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Tarr SJ,Moon RW,Hardege I,Osborne AR

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：: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：:Helminths are masterful immunoregulators. A characteristic feature of helminth infection is a Th2-dominated immune response, but stimulation of immunoregulatory cell populations, such as regulatory T cells and alternatively activated macrophages, is equally common. Typically, Th1/17 immunity is blocked and productive ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Hewitson JP,Grainger JR,Maizels RM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00