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Mosquito Salivary Proteins and Arbovirus Infection: From Viral Enhancers to Potential Targets for Vaccines

Pathogens, 2023
Arthropod-borne viruses present important public health challenges worldwide. Viruses such as DENV, ZIKV, and WNV are of current concern due to an increasing incidence and an expanding geographic range, generating explosive outbreaks even in non-endemic ...
Alejandro Marín-López, Hamidah Raduwan, Tse-Yu Chen, Sergio Utrilla-Trigo, David P. Wolfhard, Erol Fikrig   +5 more
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Proteins

, 2004
Solvation energy calculation is one of the main difficulties for the estimation of protein-ligand binding free energy and the correct scoring in docking studies.
Zhou, JJ, Wang, Q, Pei, JF, Lai, LH
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Spider-Venom Peptides as Bioinsecticides

Toxins, 2012
Over 10,000 arthropod species are currently considered to be pest organisms. They are estimated to contribute to the destruction of ~14% of the world’s annual crop production and transmit many pathogens.
Glenn F. King, Monique J. Windley, Margaret C. Hardy, Sławomir A. Dziemborowicz, Volker Herzig, Graham M. Nicholson   +5 more
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Isomin: a novel cytoplasmic intermediate filament protein from an arthropod species

BMC Biology, 2011
Background The expression of intermediate filaments (IFs) is a hallmark feature of metazoan cells. IFs play a central role in cell organization and function, acting mainly as structural stress-absorbing elements. There is growing evidence to suggest that
Lupetti Pietro, Caroti Daniela, Ciolfi Silvia, Mencarelli Caterina, Dallai Romano   +4 more
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Managing iron supply during the infection cycle of a flea borne pathogen, Bartonella henselae.

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2013
Bartonella are hemotropic bacteria responsible for emerging zoonoses. Most Bartonella species appear to share a natural cycle that involves an arthropod transmission, followed by exploitation of a mammalian host in which they cause long-lasting intra ...
Francis eBiville, Ma Feng eLiu
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Immunity against Ixodes scapularis salivary proteins expressed within 24 hours of attachment thwarts tick feeding and impairs Borrelia transmission. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2007
In North America, the black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis, an obligate haematophagus arthropod, is a vector of several human pathogens including Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent.
Sukanya Narasimhan, Kathleen Deponte, Nancy Marcantonio, Xianping Liang, Thomas E Royce, Kenneth F Nelson, Carmen J Booth, Benjamin Koski, John F Anderson, Fred Kantor, Erol Fikrig   +10 more
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Cryptic Genes for Interbacterial Antagonism Distinguish Rickettsia Species Infecting Blacklegged Ticks From Other Rickettsia Pathogens

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
BackgroundThe genus Rickettsia (Alphaproteobacteria: Rickettsiales) encompasses numerous obligate intracellular species with predominantly ciliate and arthropod hosts.
Victoria I. Verhoeve, Tyesha D. Fauntleroy, Riley G. Risteen, Timothy P. Driscoll, Joseph J. Gillespie   +4 more
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Effects of Land Management Strategies on the Dispersal Pattern of a Beneficial Arthropod [PDF]

, 2012
Several arthropods are known to be highly beneficial to agricultural production. Consequently it is of great relevance to study the importance of land management and land composition for the conservation of beneficial aphid-predator arthropod species in
Chiara Marchi, Volker Loeschcke, Liselotte Wesley Andersen (420567), Volker Loeschcke (125547), Liselotte Wesley Andersen, Loeschcke, V., Chiara Marchi (420566), Marchi, Chiara, Andersen, Liselotte Wesley   +8 more
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Identification of Proteins Bound to Dengue Viral RNA In Vivo Reveals New Host Proteins Important for Virus Replication

mBio, 2016
Dengue virus is the most prevalent cause of arthropod-borne infection worldwide. Due to the limited coding capacity of the viral genome and the complexity of the viral life cycle, host cell proteins play essential roles throughout the course of viral ...
Stacia L. Phillips, Erik J. Soderblom, Shelton S. Bradrick, Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco   +3 more
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Proteomic fingerprinting of Neotropical hard tick species (Acari: Ixodidae) using a self-curated mass spectra reference library.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight mass spectrometry is an analytical method that detects macromolecules that can be used for proteomic fingerprinting and taxonomic identification in arthropods.
Rolando A Gittens, Alejandro Almanza, Kelly L Bennett, Luis C Mejía, Javier E Sanchez-Galan, Fernando Merchan, Jonathan Kern, Matthew J Miller, Helen J Esser, Robert Hwang, May Dong, Luis F De León, Eric Álvarez, Jose R Loaiza   +13 more
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