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Analysis of nucleosome positioning landscapes enables gene discovery in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundPlasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria-causing parasite, has an extremely AT-rich (80.7 %) genome. Because of high AT-content, sequence-based annotation of genes and functional elements remains challenging.
Bunnik, Evelien M, Le Roch, Karine G, Lonardi, Stefano, Lu, Xueqing Maggie, Nasseri, Sara, Pokhriyal, Neeti   +5 more
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Evolutionary modelling indicates that mosquito metabolism shapes the life-history strategies of Plasmodium parasites

Nature Communications, 2023
Within-host survival and between-host transmission are key life-history traits of single-celled malaria parasites. Understanding the evolutionary forces that shape these traits is crucial to predict malaria epidemiology, drug resistance, and virulence ...
Paola Carrillo-Bustamante, Giulia Costa, Lena Lampe, Elena A. Levashina   +3 more
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Nascent RNA sequencing reveals mechanisms of gene regulation in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. [PDF]

, 2017
Gene expression in Plasmodium falciparum is tightly regulated to ensure successful propagation of the parasite throughout its complex life cycle. The earliest transcriptomics studies in P.
Batugedara, Gayani, Bunnik, Evelien M, Le Roch, Karine G, Lee, Michael, Lu, Xueqing Maggie, Prudhomme, Jacques   +5 more
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A proteomic view of the Plasmodium falciparum life cycle

Nature, 2002
The completion of the Plasmodium falciparum clone 3D7 genome provides a basis on which to conduct comparative proteomics studies of this human pathogen. Here, we applied a high-throughput proteomics approach to identify new potential drug and vaccine targets and to better understand the biology of this complex protozoan parasite.
Florens, L, Washburn, M, Raine, J, Anthony, R, Grainger, M, Haynes, J, Moch, J, Muster, N, Sacci, J, Tabb, D, Witney, A, Wolters, D, Wu, Y, Gardner, M, Holder, A, Sinden, R, Yates, JR, Carucci, D   +17 more
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The Plasmodium falciparum, Nima-related kinase Pfnek-4: a marker for asexual parasites committed to sexual differentiation [PDF]

, 2012
<b>Background</b> Malaria parasites undergo, in the vertebrate host, a developmental switch from asexual replication to sexual differentiation leading to the formation of gametocytes, the only form able to survive in the mosquito vector ...
AG Maier, AM Talman, Andrew Tomlins, C Aurrecoechea, Christian Doerig, CJ Tonkin, EK De Silva, F Silvestrini, J Miao, JA Braks, KG Le Roch, L O’Regan, L Reininger, L Reininger, L Reininger, LM Quarmby, Luc Reininger, M Dyer, MC Bruce, Miguel Garcia, N Hall, P Alano, R Carter, RE Sinden, S Eksi, S Singh, SM Khan, Sylke Müller   +27 more
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Motile mosquito stage malaria parasites: ready for their close‐up

EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2021
Many stages of the complex Plasmodium parasite life cycle, the eukaryotic pathogen that causes malaria, are extracellular and motile. This motility is essential for life cycle progression, and two studies in this issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine (Hopp et
Ashley Vaughan
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Deep Learning Methods in Predicting Gene Expression Levels for the Malaria Parasite

Frontiers in Genetics, 2021
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by single-celled blood parasites of the genus Plasmodium. The most severe cases of this disease are caused by the Plasmodium species, Falciparum. Once infected, a human host experiences symptoms of recurrent and
Tuan Tran, Banafsheh Rekabdar, Chinwe Ekenna   +2 more
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Recent advances in malaria genomics and epigenomics [PDF]

, 2016
Malaria continues to impose a significant disease burden on low- and middle-income countries in the tropics. However, revolutionary progress over the last 3 years in nucleic acid sequencing, reverse genetics, and post-genome analyses has generated step ...
Kirchner, Sebastian, Power, B. Joanne, Waters, Andrew P.   +2 more
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Functional interrogation of Plasmodium genus metabolism identifies species- and stage-specific differences in nutrient essentiality and drug targeting.

PLoS Computational Biology, 2018
Several antimalarial drugs exist, but differences between life cycle stages among malaria species pose challenges for developing more effective therapies.
Alyaa M Abdel-Haleem, Hooman Hefzi, Katsuhiko Mineta, Xin Gao, Takashi Gojobori, Bernhard O Palsson, Nathan E Lewis, Neema Jamshidi   +7 more
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An evolutionary perspective on the kinome of malaria parasites [PDF]

, 2012
Malaria parasites belong to an ancient lineage that diverged very early from the main branch of eukaryotes. The approximately 90-member plasmodial kinome includes a majority of eukaryotic protein kinases that clearly cluster within the AGC, CMGC, TKL ...
Andrew B. Tobin, Carvalho T. G., Christian Doerig, Eric Talevich, Natarajan Kannan, Wells T. N., Wilson R. J.   +6 more
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