Severe malaria: what's new on the pathogenesis front?

SC Wassmer, GER Grau - International journal for parasitology, 2017 - Elsevier
Plasmodium falciparum causes the most severe and fatal form of malaria in humans with
over half a million deaths each year. Cerebral malaria, a complex neurological syndrome of …

[HTML][HTML] Restraint-based three-dimensional modeling of genomes and genomic domains

F Serra, M Di Stefano, YG Spill, Y Cuartero… - FEBS letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Chromosomes are large polymer molecules composed of nucleotides. In some species,
such as humans, this polymer can sum up to meters long and still be properly folded within …

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 …

A single-cell atlas of Plasmodium falciparum transmission through the mosquito

E Real, VM Howick, FA Dahalan, K Witmer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Malaria parasites have a complex life cycle featuring diverse developmental strategies, each
uniquely adapted to navigate specific host environments. Here we use single-cell …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of clinically approved HDAC inhibitors on Plasmodium, Leishmania and Schistosoma parasite growth

MJ Chua, MSJ Arnold, W Xu, J Lancelot… - International Journal for …, 2017 - Elsevier
Malaria, schistosomiasis and leishmaniases are among the most prevalent tropical parasitic
diseases and each requires new innovative treatments. Targeting essential parasite …

Genome-wide real-time in vivo transcriptional dynamics during Plasmodium falciparum blood-stage development

HJ Painter, NC Chung, A Sebastian, I Albert… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide analysis of transcription in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has
revealed robust variation in steady-state mRNA abundance throughout the 48-h …

Epigenetic regulation of Plasmodium falciparum clonally variant gene expression during development in Anopheles gambiae

E Gómez-Díaz, RS Yerbanga, T Lefèvre, A Cohuet… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
P. falciparum phenotypic plasticity is linked to the variant expression of clonal multigene
families such as the var genes. We have examined changes in transcription and histone …

Quantitative chromatin proteomics reveals a dynamic histone post-translational modification landscape that defines asexual and sexual Plasmodium falciparum …

N Coetzee, S Sidoli, R Van Biljon, H Painter, M Llinás… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Gene expression in Plasmodia integrates post-transcriptional regulation with epigenetic
marking of active genomic regions through histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) …

Nascent RNA sequencing reveals mechanisms of gene regulation in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

XM Lu, G Batugedara, M Lee… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Gene expression in Plasmodium falciparum is tightly regulated to ensure successful
propagation of the parasite throughout its complex life cycle. The earliest transcriptomics …

A comprehensive epigenome map of Plasmodium falciparum reveals unique mechanisms of transcriptional regulation and identifies H3K36me2 as a global mark of …

K Karmodiya, SJ Pradhan, B Joshi, R Jangid… - Epigenetics & …, 2015 - Springer
Background Role of epigenetic mechanisms towards regulation of the complex life
cycle/pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of malaria, has been …