Ribosomal RNA and protein transcripts persist in the cysts of Entamoeba invadens.

abstract：:Purified GP57/51, a Trypanosoma cruzi glycoprotein earlier identified as a major antigen in infected humans, was subjected to N-terminal sequence analysis. Alignment of the first 30 amino acids revealed that its N-terminal region is virtually identical to that reported for a cysteine-proteinase isolated from the Tulah...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Murta AC,Persechini PM,Padron Tde S,de Souza W,Guimarães JA,Scharfstein J

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major merozoite-piroplasm surface antigen (mMPSA) of Theileria annulata, Tams1, is known to be antigenically diverse. The possession of variable N-linked glycosylation sites and removal of monoclonal antibody 5E1 reactivity by mild periodate treatment suggested, previously, that divergent epitopes may be conferred...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Katzer F,McKellar S,Ferguson MA,d'Oliveira C,Shiels BR

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A membrane-bound sialidase (EC 3.2.1.18) was found in procyclic trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma brucei. The mammalian stage bloodstream form, however, displayed no sialidase activity. This sialidase is an integral surface protein, linked to the membrane via a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor. After osmotic lysis and...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Engstler M,Reuter G,Schauer R

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Profilins are the key regulators of actin dynamics in all eukaryotic cells. However, little information is available on their biochemical properties and functions in kinetoplastids, such as Trypanosoma and Leishmania. We show here that Leishmania parasites express only one homolog of profilin (LdPfn), which catalyzes ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Ambaru B,Gopalsamy A,Tammana TVS,Subramanya HS,Gupta CM

更新日期：2020-07-01 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 Plasmodium falciparum gene closely linked to the chloroquine resistance locus encodes PfCG2, a predicted 320-330kDa protein. In the parasitized erythrocyte, PfCG2 expression rises sharply in the trophozoite stage and is detected in electron-dense patches along the parasitophorous vacuolar membrane (PVM), in the cyto...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Cooper RA,Papakrivos J,Lane KD,Fujioka H,Lingelbach K,Wellems TE

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidomimetic inhibitors of mammalian zinc metalloproteases have been tested as potential agents for intervention in disease caused by kinetoplastid protozoa. Certain metalloprotease inhibitors were able to inhibit the release of variant surface glycoprotein from cultured transgenic procyclic Trypanosoma brucei, conf...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Bangs JD,Ransom DA,Nimick M,Christie G,Hooper NM

更新日期：2001-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophoretic patterns of hexokinase and phosphoglucomutase have been widely used to distinguish Entamoeba histolytica from Entamoeba dispar isolates. Although E. histolytica and E. dispar, previously called pathogenic and nonpathogenic Entamoeba histolytica, differ clearly in sequences of many homologous genes,...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Ortner S,Clark CG,Binder M,Scheiner O,Wiedermann G,Duchêne M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomyosins are a family of actin-binding proteins with diverse roles in actin filament function. One of the best characterized roles is the regulation of muscle contraction. Tropomyosin isoforms can be generated from different genes, and from alternative promoters and alternative splicing from the same gene. In this...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Koziol U,Costábile A,Domínguez MF,Iriarte A,Alvite G,Kun A,Castillo E

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunodominant 72-kDa surface glycoprotein (Gp72) of Trypanosoma cruzi is involved in adhesion of the flagellum to the cell body (Cooper, R, Ribeiro de Jesus, A and Cross, G.A.M (1993) J. Cell Biol. 122, 149-156). We have characterized a gene, flagellum-adhesion glycoprotein genel (fla1), from Trypanosoma brucei th...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Nozaki T,Haynes PA,Cross GA

更新日期：1996-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria parasites export 'a secretome' of hundreds of proteins, including major virulence determinants, from their endoplasmic reticulum (ER), past the parasite plasma and vacuolar membranes to the host erythrocyte. The export mechanism is high affinity (nanomolar) binding of a host (cell) targeting (HT) motif RxLxE/D...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Bhattacharjee S,Speicher KD,Stahelin RV,Speicher DW,Haldar K

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Babesia bovis, an intraerythrocytic, protozoal parasite of cattle, undergoes clonal antigenic variation (Allred DR, Cinque RM, Lane TJ, Ahrens KP. Infect Immun 1994;62:91-98). This ability could provide a mechanism by which the parasite escapes host immune defenses to establish chronic infection. Previous work identif...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： O'Connor RM,Lane TJ,Stroup SE,Allred DR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 31P NMR spectrum of the adult tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta, at 37 degrees C during perfusion with physiological saline was composed of 10 peaks. Based on chemical shifts and analysis of worm extracts, the phosphorus components included glucose-6-phosphate, fructose-6-phosphate, phosphorylcholine, glycerophosphor...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Thompson SN,Platzer EG,Lee RW

更新日期：1987-01-02 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：:Schistosomiasis is an intravascular parasitic infection estimated to affect over 206 million people, the majority of whom live in Africa where the trematode worms Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium are the major causative agents. While a number of drugs have been used to treat schistosomiasis, praziquante...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Sanchez MC,Cupit PM,Bu L,Cunningham C

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax infection is the second most common cause of malaria throughout the world. Like other Plasmodium species, P. vivax has a large protein complex, MSP-1, located on the merozoite surface. The C-terminal MSP-1 sub-unit, MSP-1(42), is cleaved during red blood cell invasion, causing the majority of the comp...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Babon JJ,Morgan WD,Kelly G,Eccleston JF,Feeney J,Holder AA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cysteine proteinase B of Leishmania parasites is an important virulence factor. In this study we have expressed, isolated and characterized for the first time a recombinant CPB from Leishmania braziliensis, the causative agent of mucocutaneous leishmaniosis. The mature region of the recombinant CPB shares a high p...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Lanfranco MF,Loayza-Muro R,Clark D,Núñez R,Zavaleta AI,Jimenez M,Meldal M,Coombs GH,Mottram JC,Izidoro M,Juliano MA,Juliano L,Arévalo J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usefulness of random amplified polymorphic DNA markers (RAPD) was assayed in an attempt to discriminate among species, strains and individuals within the genus Schistosoma. Depending on the species, 40-50 arbitrary decamer oligonucleotides were used as primers to amplify total DNA by the polymerase chain reaction ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Barral V,This P,Imbert-Establet D,Combes C,Delseny M

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological role of Schistosomiasis mansoni 22.6 antigen (sm22.6 Ag) and its pathogenic effect on the human host has never been reported. Recombinant sm22.6 Ag is a homogenous polymer under non-denaturing/non-reducing conditions, and an inhibitor to human thrombin. Kinetic and Western blot assays show that the r...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Lin YL,He S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

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：:The microaerophilic parasite Trichomonas vaginalis is a causative agent of painful vaginitis or urethritis, termed trichomoniasis, and can also cause preterm delivery or stillbirth. Treatment of trichomoniasis is almost exclusively based on the nitroimidazole drugs metronidazole and tinidazole. Metronidazole resistanc...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Leitsch D,Drinić M,Kolarich D,Duchêne M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica is a eukaryotic intestinal parasite of humans, and is endemic in developing countries. We have characterized the E. histolytica putative low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase (LMW-PTP). The structure for this amebic tyrosine phosphatase was solved, showing the ligand-induced conformat...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Linford AS,Jiang NM,Edwards TE,Sherman NE,Van Voorhis WC,Stewart LJ,Myler PJ,Staker BL,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia duodenalis is a widespread parasite of mammalian species, including humans. Due to its invariant morphology, investigation on aspects such as host specificity and transmission patterns requires a direct genetic characterization of cysts/trophozoites from host samples. A number of molecular assays have been dev...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Cacciò SM,Ryan U

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycine cleavage complex (GCV) is a potential source of the one carbon donor 5,10-methylene-tetrahydrofolate (5,10-CH(2)-THF) in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. One carbon (C1) donor units are necessary for amino acid and nucleotide biosynthesis, and for the initiation of mitochondrial and plastid tran...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Spalding MD,Allary M,Gallagher JR,Prigge ST

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is the most abundant phospholipid in the membranes of the human parasite Leishmania. It is synthesized via two metabolic routes, the de novo pathway that starts with the uptake of choline, and the threefold methylation of phosphatidylethanolamine. Choline was shown to be dispensable for Leishm...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Bibis SS,Dahlstrom K,Zhu T,Zufferey R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival of Onchocerca volvulus, a pathogenic human filarial parasite, is likely to depend upon the detoxification activities of the glutathione S-transferases (GSTs). The 24 kDa O. volvulus GST, OvGST2, was expressed in a bacterial system and the recombinant protein was purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatogra...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Liebau E,Wildenburg G,Brophy PM,Walter RD,Henkle-Dührsen K

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:The origin of membraneous structures in the cytoplasm of human erythrocytes infected with the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, was determined by confocal fluorescence imaging microscopy. When infectious merozoites invaded erythrocytes labeled with the fluorescent, lipophilic, non-exchangeable molecules DiIC16 ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Pouvelle B,Gormley JA,Taraschi TF

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:Schistosoma mansoni schistosomula cultured in the presence of phospholipids showed a decreased sensitivity to the lethal complement-mediated action of anti-schistosome antibodies. Phosphatidyl choline, sphingomyelin and phosphatidyl ethanolamine had a protective action on the schistosomula transformed in vitro by pass...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Billecocq A

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00