Gene disruption reveals a dispensable role for plasmepsin VII in the Plasmodium berghei life cycle.

abstract：:Multigene families are present on the telomeric and sub-telomeric regions of most chromosomes of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium. The largest gene family identified so far is the Plasmodium interspersed repeat (pir) multigene gene family and is shared by Plasmodium vivax, and simian and rodent malaria species. Most p...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Cunningham D,Lawton J,Jarra W,Preiser P,Langhorne J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major surface antigen (30 kDa) of Brugia pahangi has been characterised by a number of biochemical and immunochemical means. The 30 kDa polypeptide is a glycoprotein which can be extracted from the worm surface by homogenization in the absence of detergents. The 30 kDa polypeptide can be metabolically labelled wit...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Devaney E

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the currently available nematicides used in nematode control are hazardous to the user, environment and beneficial non-target organisms. Therefore the need to develop alternative methods for nematode control such as the development of nematode-resistant crops through RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) holds grea...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Joseph S,Gheysen G,Subramaniam K

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:An expression vector was constructed to express foreign genes in Trypanosoma congolense. The foreign gene and a neomycin phosphotransferase (NPT) gene are flanked by glutamate and alanine rich protein (GARP) gene processing signals and their expression is driven by a ribosomal RNA gene promoter. The plasmid is not mai...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Downey N,Donelson JE

更新日期：1999-10-25 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：:Two different classes of small nematode specific lipid-binding proteins, the nematode polyprotein allergens/antigens (NPAs) and the fatty acid- and retinol-binding (FAR) proteins, are secreted by helminth parasites. Until now, there was no evidence of the expression or secretion of these two families of proteins in Ha...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Kuang L,Colgrave ML,Bagnall NH,Knox MR,Qian M,Wijffels G

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Leishmania promastigote surface protease (PSP) with the plasmatic protease inhibitor alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) was investigated. In plasma, solubilized PSP forms covalent complexes only with alpha 2M, at the exclusion of other protease inhibitors. The formation of complexes is accompanied by ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Heumann D,Burger D,Vischer T,de Colmenares M,Bouvier J,Bordier C

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia lamblia undergoes surface antigenic variation. The variant-specific surface proteins (VSPs) of isolate WB are cysteine-rich, can vary dramatically in size, contain Cys-X-X-Cys motifs, and are differentially expressed. GS/M(H7) is a Giardia clone from a different isolate which expresses a VSP epitope not found ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Nash TE,Mowatt MR

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether the lysosomes of Trypanosoma brucei are capable of uptake of macromolecules after internalization by the cell, we used Triton WR-1339, a non-digestible macromolecular compound, which is known to cause a marked decrease in the density of hepatic lysosomes due to massive intralysosomal storage. In...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Opperdoes FR,Van Roy J

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As genomic sequencing of Leishmania nears completion, functional analyses that provide a global genetic perspective on biological processes are important. Despite polycistronic transcription, RNA transcript abundance can be measured using microarrays. To provide a resource to evaluate cDNA arrays, we undertook 5' expr...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Almeida R,Gilmartin BJ,McCann SH,Norrish A,Ivens AC,Lawson D,Levick MP,Smith DF,Dyall SD,Vetrie D,Freeman TC,Coulson RM,Sampaio I,Schneider H,Blackwell JM

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycosome, a microbody organelle found only in kinetoplastid protozoa, compartmentalizes the first six enzymes of glycolysis. In order to better understand the regulation and targeting of glycolytic enzymes in trypanosomes, we have cloned and analyzed the three genes of the phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) complex of...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Parker HL,Hill T,Alexander K,Murphy NB,Fish WR,Parsons M

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The pfmdr 1 gene encodes a Plasmodium falciparum homologue of the human P-glycoprotein expressed on the surface of the parasite food vacuole. Variation in copy number and specific codon mutations of pfmdr 1 have been implicated in the development of parasite resistance to antimalarial drugs. We describe here the techn...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Price R,Robinson G,Brockman A,Cowman A,Krishna S

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth inhibition and radioisotope incorporation studies with allopurinol (4-hydroxypyrazolo(3,4-d)pyrimidine) have shown that the African trypanosomes are biologically and biochemically similar to Leishmania spp. and Trypanosoma cruzi with respect to their response to this compound. These organisms, as a group, share...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Berens RL,Marr JJ,Brun R

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells can degrade their own components, cytosolic proteins and organelles, using dedicated hydrolases contained within the acidic interior of their lysosomes. This degradative process, called autophagy, is used under starvation conditions to recycle redundant or less important macromolecules, facilitates me...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Brennand A,Gualdrón-López M,Coppens I,Rigden DJ,Ginger ML,Michels PA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive DNA sequences of the Leishmania donovani genome have been identified by screening a recombinant DNA library made by cloning sheared genomic DNA into the vector pAT153. Bacterial clones containing a highly repetitive DNA sequence have been isolated. DNA sequencing has shown that this sequence is composed of ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Ellis J,Crampton J

更新日期：1988-05-01 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：:Kinetoplast DNA (kDNA), the mitochondrial DNA of trypanosomes, is a network of thousands of topologically interlocked DNA minicircles and about 50 maxicircles. In this study, we have analysed the kDNA molecules of 6 strains of Trypanosoma evansi from different geographical areas. 2 strains were found to be dyskinetopl...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Ou YC,Giroud C,Baltz T

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichomonas vaginalis is a parasitic protozoan of both medical and biological relevance. Transcriptional studies in this organism have focused mainly on type II pol promoters, whereas the elements necessary for transcription by polI or polIII have not been investigated. Here, with the aid of a transient transcription ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Franco B,Hernández R,López-Villaseñor I

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:The phosphoinositide phosphatidylinositol-3,5-bisphosphate (PI(3,5)P2) plays crucial roles in the maintenance of lysosome/vacuole morphology, membrane trafficking and regulation of endolysosome-localized membrane channel activity. In Toxoplasma gondii, we previously reported that PI(3,5)P2 is essential for parasite su...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Daher W,Morlon-Guyot J,Alayi TD,Tomavo S,Wengelnik K,Lebrun M

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：: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：:Sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes in the cerebral circulation is strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of cerebral malaria. From previous studies it was postulated that genes essential for cytoadherence were located on the right arm of chromosome 9 as P. falciparum isolates with a deletion...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Chaiyaroj SC,Coppel RL,Magowan C,Brown GV

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria transmission occurs during a blood-meal of an infected Anopheles mosquito. Visualization and quantification of sporozoites along the journey from the mosquito midgut, where they develop, to the vertebrate liver, their final target organ, is important for understanding many aspects of sporozoite biology. Here w...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Engelmann S,Sinnis P,Matuschewski K

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infective larval stage of the nematode Trichinella spiralis is an intracellular parasite of skeletal muscle cells. Infection with T. spiralis results in dedifferentiation of the host cell and the formation of a host/parasite complex. A gene encoding a T. spiralis Helix-Loop-helix (HLH) protein with homology to the...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Connolly B,Trenholme K,Smith DF

更新日期：1996-10-30 00:00:00