Genomic-scale prioritization of drug targets: the TDR Targets database

F Agüero, B Al-Lazikani, M Aslett, M Berriman… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2008 - nature.com
The increasing availability of genomic data for pathogens that cause tropical diseases has
created new opportunities for drug discovery and development. However, if the potential of …

Communication between Toxoplasma gondii and its host: impact on parasite growth, development, immune evasion, and virulence

IJ Blader, JP Saeij - Apmis, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite that can infect most warm‐
blooded animals and cause severe and life‐threatening disease in develo** fetuses and …

[LLIBRE][B] Toxoplasma gondii: the model apicomplexan-perspectives and methods

LM Weiss - 2013 - books.google.com
This 2e of Toxoplasma gondii reflects the significant advances in the field in the last 5 years,
including new information on the genomics, epigenomics and proteomics of T. gondii as well …

1H NMR-based Metabolomic Profiling in Mice Infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

JH Shin, JY Yang, BY Jeon, YJ Yoon… - Journal of proteome …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of three major infectious diseases, and the control of TB is
becoming more difficult because of the emergence of multidrug-resistant and extensively …

Metabolic changes in Toxoplasma gondii-infected host cells measured by autofluorescence imaging

GM Gallego-López, E Contreras Guzman, DE Desa… - Mbio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Toxoplasma gondii, the causative agent of toxoplasmosis, is an obligate intracellular
parasite that infects warm-blooded vertebrates across the world. In humans, seropositivity …

Host cell manipulation by the human pathogen Toxoplasma gondii

J Laliberte, VB Carruthers - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2008 - Springer
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that can infect virtually any nucleated
cell. During invasion Toxoplasma creates the parasitophorous vacuole, a subcellular …

Purine and pyrimidine transport in pathogenic protozoa: from biology to therapy

HP De Koning, DJ Bridges… - FEMS microbiology …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Purine salvage is an essential function for all obligate parasitic protozoa studied to date and
most are also capable of efficient uptake of preformed pyrimidines. Much progress has been …

Targeting purine and pyrimidine metabolism in human apicomplexan parasites

JE Hyde - Current drug targets, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Synthesis de novo, acquisition by salvage and interconversion of purines and pyrimidines
represent the fundamental requirements for their eventual assembly into nucleic acids as …

Asexual expansion of Toxoplasma gondii merozoites is distinct from tachyzoites and entails expression of non-overlap** gene families to attach, invade, and …

AB Hehl, WU Basso, C Lippuner, C Ramakrishnan… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background The apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is cosmopolitan in
nature, largely as a result of its highly flexible life cycle. Felids are its only definitive hosts …

Macrophage nutriprive antimicrobial mechanisms

R Appelberg - Journal of leukocyte biology, 2006 - academic.oup.com
In addition to oxidative and antibiotic mechanisms of antimicrobial activity, macrophages are
able to deprive intracellular pathogens of required nutrients. Thus, microbial killing may not …