abstract：:Parasitic infections are a widespread health problem and research of novel anthelmintic compounds is of the utmost importance. In this study we performed a virtual screening campaign by coupling ligand-based pharmacophore, homology modeling and molecular docking. The virtual screening campaign was conducted using a jo...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Stevanovic S,Marjanović DS,Trailović SM,Zdravković N,Perdih A,Nikolic K

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural antisense transcripts (NATs) are non-protein coding RNAs that could play an important role in regulating the expression of their counterpart protein encoding sense transcript. Although NATs are widespread in most eukaryotic genomes, very little is known about their functions. This study focuses on gaining a be...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Fahim A,Afrin F,Wen G,Ananvoranich S

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:Cryptosporidiosis is an obligate intracellular pathogen causing diarrhea. Merozoite egress is essential for infection to spread between host cells. However, the mechanisms of egress have yet to be defined. We hypothesized that Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinase G (PKG) may be involved in Cryptosporidium egress. In th...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Nava S,Sadiqova A,Castellanos-Gonzalez A,White AC Jr

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:Species of Centrorhynchus (Polymorphida: Centrorhynchidae) commonly parasitize various falconiform and strigiform birds worldwide. In the present study, the complete mitochondrial (mt) genome sequences of Centrorhynchus clitorideus was sequenced and annotated for the first time based on specimens collected from the li...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Muhammad N,Suleman,Khan MS,Li L,Zhao Q,Ullah H,Zhu XQ,Ma J

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translation initiation factor eIF4F is essential for cap-dependent translation initiation in eukaryotes. eIF4F is a trimeric complex consisting of a scaffold protein eIF4G, cap-binding protein eIF4E and DEAD-box RNA helicase eIF4A. eIF4F binds to the 5' cap structure of the mRNA through eIF4E and facilitates the bindi...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Adedoja AN,McMahan T,Neal JP,Hamal Dhakal S,Jois S,Romo D,Hull K,Garlapati S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase chain reaction followed by high resolution melting (PCR-HRM) analysis is a simple, rapid and accurate method for molecular detection of various nematode species. The objective of the present study was, for the first time, to develop a PCR-HRM assay for the detection of various animal Trichostrongylus spp. A...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Arbabi M,Hooshyar H,Lotfinia M,Bakhshi MA

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Release of sporozoites from Eimeria oocysts/sporocysts is an essential step in the intracellular development of the parasite in its host. Little is known about this process except that elevated temperature (∼ 40 °C) plus trypsin and bile salts are required for sporozoite to escape from sporocysts. In this study, it wa...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Jenkins MC,O'Brien CN,Parker C

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Ribosome biosynthesis, best studied in opisthokonts, is a highly complex process involving numerous protein and RNA factors. Yet, very little is known about the early stages of pre-18S rRNA processing even in these model organisms, let alone the conservation of this mechanism in other eukaryotes. Here we extend our kn...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Faktorová D,Bär A,Hashimi H,McKenney K,Horák A,Schnaufer A,Rubio MAT,Alfonzo JD,Lukeš J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unequal usage of synonymous codons in the gene transcript for an amino acid is known as codon usage bias (CUB). It is a unique property of gene as well as genome. Mutation and natural selection are known to be the major factors that influence CUB. Other factors encompass gene expression level, GC content, codon positi...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Mazumder GA,Uddin A,Chakraborty S

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi, the aetiological agent of Chagas disease, can obtain L-glutamine (Gln) through the enzyme glutamine synthetase (GS) using glutamate (Glu) and ammonia as substrates. In this work, we show additional non-canonical roles for this amino acid: its involvement in ATP maintenance and parasite survival unde...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Damasceno FS,Barisón MJ,Crispim M,Souza ROO,Marchese L,Silber AM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the signaling pathways are regulated by reversible phosphorylation-dephosphorylation which involves enzymes- kinases and phosphatases. Current knowledge about the protein phosphatases in parasites like Trypanosoma and Leishmania is very minimal despite their enormousity. In present study, full length ORF of Le...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Jakkula P,Qureshi R,Iqbal A,Sagurthi SR,Qureshi IA

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium spp. are the causative agents of diarrheal disease worldwide, but effective treatments are lacking. Cryptosporidium employs mucin-like glycoproteins with O-glycans to attach to and infect host intestinal epithelial cells. The Tn antigen (GalNAcα1-Ser/Thr) is an O-glycan essential for these processes, a...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： DeCicco RePass MA,Bhat N,Heimburg-Molinaro J,Bunnell S,Cummings RD,Ward HD

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to eradicate malaria, new interventions are proposed to include compound/vaccine development against pre-erythrocytic, erythrocytic and mosquito stages of Plasmodium. Drug repurposing might be an alternative approach to new antimalarials reducing the cost and the time required for drug development. Previo...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Goulielmaki E,Kaforou S,Venugopal K,Loukeris TG,Siden-Kiamos I,Koussis K

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Per-ARNT-Sim (PAS) domains of proteins play important roles as modules for signalling and cellular regulation processes in widely diverse organisms such as Archaea, Bacteria, protists, plants, yeasts, insects and vertebrates. These domains are present in many proteins where they are used as sensors of stimuli and modu...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Rojas-Pirela M,Rigden DJ,Michels PA,Cáceres AJ,Concepción JL,Quiñones W

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human infections from Plasmodium knowlesi present challenges to malaria control in Southeast Asia. P. knowlesi also offers a model for other human malaria species including Plasmodium vivax. P. knowlesi parasites can be cultivated in the laboratory, and their transformation is standardly performed by direct electropor...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Moraes Barros RR,Gibson TJ,Kite WA,Sá JM,Wellems TE

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma brucei Tim17(TbTim17), the single member of the Tim17/23/22 protein family, is an essential component of the translocase of the mitochondrial inner membrane (TIM). In spite of the conserved secondary structure, the primary sequence of TbTim17, particularly the N-terminal hydrophilic region, is significantl...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Weems E,Singha UK,Smith JT,Chaudhuri M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum extensively modifies the infected red blood cell (RBC), resulting in changes in deformability, shape and surface properties. These alterations suggest that the RBC cytoskeleton is a major target for modification during infection. However, the molecular mechanisms leading to these changes are larg...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Shakya B,Penn WD,Nakayasu ES,LaCount DJ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-binding cassette transporters (ABC transporters) are essential components of normal cellular physiological machinery in all eukaryotic and prokaryotic species, including parasites. Some ABC transporters, e.g., P-glycoproteins, are involved in the efflux of toxins and xenobiotics from the cell. At present, nothing ...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Mordvinov VA,Ershov NI,Pirozhkova DS,Pakharukov YV,Pakharukova MY

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Trypanosoma brucei, the generation of knockout mutants is relatively easy compared to other organisms as transfection methods are well established. These methods have their limitations, however, when it comes to the generation of genome-wide libraries that require a minimum of several hundred thousand transformants...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Schumann G,Kangussu-Marcolino MM,Doiron N,Käser S,de Assis Burle-Caldas G,DaRocha WD,Teixeira SM,Roditi I

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxocariasis is a neglected disease, and its main etiological agent is the nematode Toxocara canis. Serological diagnosis is performed by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using T. canis excretory and secretory (TES) antigens produced by in vitro cultivation of larvae. Identification of TES proteins can be useful f...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Sperotto RL,Kremer FS,Aires Berne ME,Costa de Avila LF,da Silva Pinto L,Monteiro KM,Caumo KS,Ferreira HB,Berne N,Borsuk S

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：:Human and porcine cysticercosis is a parasitic disease caused by the larval stage (cysts) of the tapeworm Taenia solium. Cysts may live in several host tissues such as skeletal muscle or brain. We have previously described the presence of host haptoglobin (Hp) and hemoglobin (Hb) in different protein extracts of the T...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Navarrete-Perea J,Toledano-Magaña Y,De la Torre P,Sciutto E,Bobes RJ,Soberón X,Laclette JP

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Representatives of all major lineages of eukaryotes contain peroxisomes with similar morphology and mode of biogenesis, indicating a monophyletic origin of the organelles within the common ancestor of all eukaryotes. Peroxisomes originated from the endoplasmic reticulum, but despite a common origin and shared morpholo...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Gabaldón T,Ginger ML,Michels PA

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The microtubular cytoskeleton of most single-celled eukaryotes radiates from an organizing center called the flagellar apparatus, which is essential for locomotion, feeding and reproduction. The structure of the flagellar apparatus tends to be conserved within diverse clades of eukaryotes, and modifications of this ov...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Yubuki N,Čepička I,Leander BS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeric DNA of trypanosomatids possesses a modified thymine base, called base J, that is synthesized in a two-step process; the base is hydroxylated by a thymidine hydroxylase forming hydroxymethyluracil (hmU) and a glucose moiety is then attached by the J-associated glucosyltransferase (JGT). To examine the importa...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Bullard W,Cliffe L,Wang P,Wang Y,Sabatini R

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum is the causative organism for the most severe form of malaria among humans. The clinical symptoms are accredited to the asexual stage of parasite life cycle, involving merozoite invasion of erythrocyte, development and re-invasion into the new erythrocyte. Interaction of parasite proteins present...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Hans N,Relan U,Dubey N,Gaur D,Chauhan VS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania major aquaglyceroporin (AQP1) is an adventitious metalloid channel that allows the bidirectional movement of arsenite and antimonite. Here we demonstrate that AQP1 is subjected to proteasome-dependent degradation. Treatment of Leishmania promastigotes with the proteasome inhibitor MG132 resulted in increase...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Sharma M,Mandal G,Mandal S,Bhattacharjee H,Mukhopadhyay R

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paramyosin of Clonorchis sinensis (CsPmy) is a myofibrillar protein localized in subtegumental muscle, tegument, and the muscle layer surrounding the intestine of the parasite. Previously, we have identified that CsPmy reacted with sera of human clonorchiasis and this protein had a potential as a candidate antigen for...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Kang JM,Ju HL,Lee J,Kim TI,Cho SH,Kim TS,Sohn WM,Na BK

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubulin-binding cofactor C stimulates GTPase activity and contributes to the release of the heterodimeric α/β-tubulin from a super-complex of tubulin monomers and two ancillary cofactors. We have determined the 2.2 Å resolution crystal structure of the C-terminal domain of tubulin-binding cofactor C from Leishmania ma...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Barrack KL,Fyfe PK,Finney AJ,Hunter WN

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anthelmintic cyclooctadepsipeptide emodepside is effective against nematodes showing resistance against established drug classes. Emodepside exerts its nematicidal effects mainly through its validated target, the tetrameric voltage- and calcium-activated potassium channel SLO-1. Two slo-1 genes were described in T...

journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology

authors： Yilmaz E,Kulke D,von Samson-Himmelstjerna G,Krücken J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00