Malaria: biology and disease

AF Cowman, J Healer, D Marapana, K Marsh - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Malaria has been a major global health problem of humans through history and is a leading
cause of death and disease across many tropical and subtropical countries. Over the last …

Antigenic Variation in Plasmodium falciparum

A Scherf, JJ Lopez-Rubio, L Riviere - Annu. Rev. Microbiol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
The persistence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum during blood stage
proliferation in its host depends on the successive expression of variant molecules at the …

Heterochromatin protein 1 secures survival and transmission of malaria parasites

NMB Brancucci, NL Bertschi, L Zhu, I Niederwieser… - Cell host & …, 2014 - cell.com
Clonally variant expression of surface antigens allows the malaria parasite Plasmodium
falciparum to evade immune recognition during blood stage infection and secure malaria …

The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum can sense environmental changes and respond by antigenic switching

VM Schneider, JE Visone, CT Harris, F Florini… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
The primary antigenic and virulence determinant of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium
falciparum is a variant surface protein called PfEMP1. Different forms of PfEMP1 are …

[SÁCH][B] Handbook of vitamins

J Zempleni, JW Suttie, JF Gregory III, PJ Stover - 2013 - books.google.com
Within the last few years, knowledge about vitamins has increased dramatically. This new
edition of a bestseller presents comprehensive summaries that analyze the chemical …

A Plasmodium falciparum histone deacetylase regulates antigenic variation and gametocyte conversion

BI Coleman, KM Skillman, RHY Jiang, LM Childs… - Cell host & …, 2014 - cell.com
The asexual forms of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum are adapted for chronic
persistence in human red blood cells, continuously evading host immunity using …

Histone Deacetylase Activity Regulates Chemical Diversity in Aspergillus

EK Shwab, JW Bok, M Tribus, J Galehr… - Eukaryotic …, 2007 - journals.asm.org
Bioactive small molecules are critical in Aspergillus species during their development and
interaction with other organisms. Genes dedicated to their production are encoded in …

Reconstructing immune phylogeny: new perspectives

GW Litman, JP Cannon, LJ Dishaw - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2005 - nature.com
Numerous studies of the mammalian immune system have begun to uncover profound
interrelationships, as well as fundamental differences, between the adaptive and innate …

Common strategies for antigenic variation by bacterial, fungal and protozoan pathogens

KW Deitsch, SA Lukehart, JR Stringer - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009 - nature.com
The complex relationships between infectious organisms and their hosts often reflect the
continuing struggle of the pathogen to proliferate and spread to new hosts, and the need of …

Genome-wide analysis of heterochromatin associates clonally variant gene regulation with perinuclear repressive centers in malaria parasites

JJ Lopez-Rubio, L Mancio-Silva, A Scherf - Cell host & microbe, 2009 - cell.com
Clonally variant gene families underlie phenotypic plasticity in Plasmodium falciparum, a
process indispensable for survival of the pathogen in its human host. Differential …