Human genetics and malaria resistance

SN Kariuki, TN Williams - Human genetics, 2020 - Springer
Malaria has been the pre-eminent cause of early mortality in many parts of the world
throughout much of the last five thousand years and, as a result, it is the strongest force for …

Programmable interactions with biomimetic DNA linkers at fluid membranes and interfaces

BM Mognetti, P Cicuta… - Reports on progress in …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
At the heart of the structured architecture and complex dynamics of biological systems are
specific and timely interactions operated by biomolecules. In many instances, biomolecular …

Common host variation drives malaria parasite fitness in healthy human red cells

ER Ebel, FA Kuypers, C Lin, DA Petrov, ES Egan - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The replication of Plasmodium falciparum parasites within red blood cells (RBCs) causes
severe disease in humans, especially in Africa. Deleterious alleles like hemoglobin S are …

Actomyosin forces and the energetics of red blood cell invasion by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

TCA Blake, S Haase, J Baum - PLoS pathogens, 2020 - journals.plos.org
All symptoms of malaria disease are associated with the asexual blood stages of
development, involving cycles of red blood cell (RBC) invasion and egress by the …

Structural variation of the malaria-associated human glycophorin ABE region

S Louzada, W Algady, E Weyell, LW Zuccherato… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Approximately 5% of the human genome shows common structural variation,
which is enriched for genes involved in the immune response and cell-cell interactions. A …

Adaptive immunity selects against malaria infection blocking mutations

BS Penman, S Gandon - PLOS Computational Biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The mutation responsible for Duffy negativity, which impedes Plasmodium vivax infection,
has reached high frequencies in certain human populations. Conversely, mutations capable …

High-throughput genoty** assays for identification of glycophorin B deletion variants in population studies

DSY Amuzu, KA Rockett, EM Leffler… - Experimental …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Glycophorins are the most abundant sialoglycoproteins on the surface of human erythrocyte
membranes. Genetic variation in glycophorin region of human chromosome 4 (containing …

Antibody mediated clearance of ring-infected erythrocytes as a mechanism of protective immunity against Plasmodium falciparum malaria

FK Musasia - 2020 - archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
Malaria is still a disease of global health significance. Its causative agent, Plasmodium, has
a complex lifecycle alternating between the female Anopheles mosquito and the vertebrate …

Survival strategies of host, parasite, and vector in human Malaria

FB Mandal - Researcher Bulletin of Medical Sciences, 2022 - theses.sbmu.ac.ir
Malaria, the best example of infectious protozoan diseases, has been tremendously
impacted the human genome. The global spread of malaria reflects the successful …

[PDF][PDF] African Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

FB Mandal - 2021 - svedbergopen.com
The global human population is perhaps at the face of an unprecedented challenge due to
the most devastative infection of a new virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …