Malaria parasite proteins that remodel the host erythrocyte

AG Maier, BM Cooke, AF Cowman… - Nature Reviews …, 2009‏ - nature.com
Exported proteins of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum interact with proteins of the
erythrocyte membrane and induce substantial changes in the morphology, physiology and …

[PDF][PDF] Role of bacteria in health and disease of periodontal tissues.

Z Feng, A Weinberg - Periodontology 2000, 2006‏ - academia.edu
The interaction between bacteria and eukaryotic cells is complex; active processes must
exist that allow us to live harmoniously with the bacteria which normally live on and within …

Lineage-specific expansion of proteins exported to erythrocytes in malaria parasites

TJ Sargeant, M Marti, E Caler, JM Carlton, K Simpson… - Genome biology, 2006‏ - Springer
Abstract Background The apicomplexan parasite Plasmodium falciparum causes the most
severe form of malaria in humans. After invasion into erythrocytes, asexual parasite stages …

A subset of group A-like var genes encodes the malaria parasite ligands for binding to human brain endothelial cells

A Claessens, Y Adams, A Ghumra… - Proceedings of the …, 2012‏ - pnas.org
Cerebral malaria is the most deadly manifestation of infection with Plasmodium falciparum.
The pathology of cerebral malaria is characterized by the accumulation of infected …

Comparative whole genome transcriptome analysis of three Plasmodium falciparum strains

M Llinas, Z Bozdech, ED Wong, AT Adai… - Nucleic acids …, 2006‏ - academic.oup.com
Gene expression patterns have been demonstrated to be highly variable between similar
cell types, for example lab strains and wild strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cultured …

Distinct physiological states of Plasmodium falciparum in malaria-infected patients

JP Daily, D Scanfeld, N Pochet, K Le Roch, D Plouffe… - Nature, 2007‏ - nature.com
Infection with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum leads to widely different clinical
conditions in children, ranging from mild flu-like symptoms to coma and death. Despite the …

A systematic map of genetic variation in Plasmodium falciparum

C Kidgell, SK Volkman, J Daily, JO Borevitz… - PLoS …, 2006‏ - journals.plos.org
Discovering novel genes involved in immune evasion and drug resistance in the human
malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is of critical importance to global health. Such …

A Genome-Wide Proteome Array Reveals a Limited Set of Immunogens in Natural Infections of Humans and White-Footed Mice with Borrelia burgdorferi

AG Barbour, A Jasinskas, MA Kayala… - Infection and …, 2008‏ - journals.asm.org
Humans and other animals with Lyme borreliosis produce antibodies to a number of
components of the agent Borrelia burgdorferi, but a full accounting of the immunogens …

The Plasmodium falciparum STEVOR Multigene Family Mediates Antigenic Variation of the Infected Erythrocyte

M Niang, X Yan Yam, PR Preiser - PLoS pathogens, 2009‏ - journals.plos.org
Modifications of the Plasmodium falciparum–infected red blood cell (iRBC) surface have
been linked to parasite-associated pathology. Such modifications enable the parasite to …

Nucleosome landscape and control of transcription in the human malaria parasite

N Ponts, EY Harris, J Prudhomme, I Wick… - Genome …, 2010‏ - genome.cshlp.org
In eukaryotic cells, chromatin reorganizes within promoters of active genes to allow the
transcription machinery and various transcription factors to access DNA. In this model …