malERA: an updated research agenda for malaria elimination and eradication

RN Rabinovich, C Drakeley, AA Djimde, BF Hall… - PLoS …, 2017‏ - journals.plos.org
Achieving a malaria-free world presents exciting scientific challenges as well as
overwhelming health, equity, and economic benefits. WHO and countries are setting …

Parasite recognition and signaling mechanisms in innate immune responses to malaria

DC Gowda, X Wu - Frontiers in immunology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Malaria caused by the Plasmodium family of parasites, especially P. falciparum and P. vivax,
is a major health problem in many countries in the tropical and subtropical regions of the …

[HTML][HTML] Functional profiling of a Plasmodium genome reveals an abundance of essential genes

E Bushell, AR Gomes, T Sanderson, B Anar, G Girling… - Cell, 2017‏ - cell.com
The genomes of malaria parasites contain many genes of unknown function. To assist drug
development through the identification of essential genes and pathways, we have measured …

The Malaria Cell Atlas: Single parasite transcriptomes across the complete Plasmodium life cycle

VM Howick, AJC Russell, T Andrews, H Heaton… - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
INTRODUCTION Plasmodium parasites, the causative agent of malaria, are single-celled
organisms with distinct morphological developmental stages each specialized to inhabit …

Plasmodium Genomics and Genetics: New Insights into Malaria Pathogenesis, Drug Resistance, Epidemiology, and Evolution

X Su, KD Lane, L **a, JM Sá… - Clinical microbiology …, 2019‏ - journals.asm.org
Protozoan Plasmodium parasites are the causative agents of malaria, a deadly disease that
continues to afflict hundreds of millions of people every year. Infections with malaria …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals hidden transcriptional variation in malaria parasites

AJ Reid, AM Talman, HM Bennett, AR Gomes… - elife, 2018‏ - elifesciences.org
Single-cell RNA-sequencing is revolutionising our understanding of seemingly
homogeneous cell populations but has not yet been widely applied to single-celled …

Sexual differentiation in human malaria parasites is regulated by competition between phospholipid metabolism and histone methylation

CT Harris, X Tong, R Campelo, IM Marreiros… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
For Plasmodium falciparum, the most widespread and virulent malaria parasite that infects
humans, persistence depends on continuous asexual replication in red blood cells, while …

A knockout screen of ApiAP2 genes reveals networks of interacting transcriptional regulators controlling the Plasmodium life cycle

K Modrzynska, C Pfander, L Chappell, L Yu, C Suarez… - Cell host & …, 2017‏ - cell.com
A family of apicomplexa-specific proteins containing AP2 DNA-binding domains (ApiAP2s)
was identified in malaria parasites. This family includes sequence-specific transcription …

Transcriptomics and proteomics reveal two waves of translational repression during the maturation of malaria parasite sporozoites

SE Lindner, KE Swearingen, MJ Shears… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Plasmodium sporozoites are transmitted from infected mosquitoes to mammals, and must
navigate the host skin and vasculature to infect the liver. This journey requires distinct …

Plasmodium malariae and P. ovale genomes provide insights into malaria parasite evolution

GG Rutledge, U Böhme, M Sanders, AJ Reid… - Nature, 2017‏ - nature.com
Elucidation of the evolutionary history and interrelatedness of Plasmodium species that
infect humans has been hampered by a lack of genetic information for three human-infective …