Search Results - "Alcolea, Pedro J."
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Functional genomics in sand fly-derived Leishmania promastigotes
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-05-2019)“…Leishmania development in the sand fly gut leads to highly infective forms called metacyclic promastigotes. This process can be routinely mimicked in culture…”
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An Insight into the proteome of Crithidia fasciculata choanomastigotes as a comparative approach to axenic growth, peanut lectin agglutination and differentiation of Leishmania spp. promastigotes
Published in PloS one (11-12-2014)“…The life cycle of the trypanosomatid Crithidia fasciculata is monogenetic, as the unique hosts of these parasites are different species of culicids. The…”
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IL12 p35 and p40 subunit genes administered as pPAL plasmid constructs do not improve protection of pPAL-LACK vaccine against canine leishmaniasis
Published in PloS one (22-02-2019)“…Leishmania infantum causes zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL) in the Mediterranean basin and South America. The parasite has been shown to co-infect HIV…”
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Influence of the Microenvironment in the Transcriptome of Leishmania infantum Promastigotes: Sand Fly versus Culture
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (10-05-2016)“…Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease caused by Leishmania infantum in the Mediterranean Basin, where domestic dogs and wild canids are the…”
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Increased Abundance of Proteins Involved in Resistance to Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress at the Last Stages of Growth and Development of Leishmania amazonensis Promastigotes Revealed by Proteome Analysis
Published in PloS one (24-10-2016)“…Leishmania amazonensis is one of the major etiological agents of the neglected, stigmatizing disease termed american cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL). ACL is a…”
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Non-replicative antibiotic resistance-free DNA vaccine encoding S and N proteins induces full protection in mice against SARS-CoV-2
Published in Frontiers in immunology (09-11-2022)“…SARS-CoV-2 vaccines currently in use have contributed to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Notwithstanding, the high mutation rate, fundamentally in the spike…”
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Serum Removal from Culture Induces Growth Arrest, Ploidy Alteration, Decrease in Infectivity and Differential Expression of Crucial Genes in Leishmania infantum Promastigotes
Published in PloS one (09-03-2016)“…Leishmania infantum is one of the species responsible for visceral leishmaniasis. This species is distributed basically in the Mediterranean basin. A recent…”
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Leishmania infantum UBC1 in Metacyclic Promastigotes from Phlebotomus perniciosus , a Vaccine Candidate for Zoonotic Visceral Leishmaniasis
Published in Vaccines (Basel) (03-02-2022)“…parasites cause outstanding levels of morbidity and mortality in many developing countries in tropical and subtropical regions. Numerous gene expression…”
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RNA-seq analysis reveals differences in transcript abundance between cultured and sand fly-derived Leishmania infantum promastigotes
Published in Parasitology international (01-08-2018)“…Leishmania infantum is responsible for human and canine leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean basin, where the major vector is Phlebotomus perniciosus. Because…”
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Temperature increase prevails over acidification in gene expression modulation of amastigote differentiation in Leishmania infantum
Published in BMC genomics (14-01-2010)“…The extracellular promastigote and the intracellular amastigote stages alternate in the digenetic life cycle of the trypanosomatid parasite Leishmania…”
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Nickel-resistance determinants in Acidiphilium sp. PM identified by genome-wide functional screening
Published in PloS one (16-04-2014)“…Acidiphilium spp. are conspicuous dwellers of acidic, metal-rich environments. Indeed, they are among the most metal-resistant organisms; yet little is known…”
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The contribution of DNA microarray technology to gene expression profiling in Leishmania spp.: A retrospective view
Published in Acta tropica (01-11-2018)“…The first completed genome project of any living organism, excluding viruses, was of the gammaproteobacteria Haemophilus influenzae in 1995. Until the last…”
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Rationale for selection of developmentally regulated genes as vaccine candidates against Leishmania infantum infection
Published in Vaccine (04-11-2016)“…[...]genes up-regulated in the infective stages of the parasite code potential vaccine candidates, which has been considered herein together with biological…”
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The antibiotic resistance-free mammalian expression plasmid vector pPAL for development of third generation vaccines
Published in Plasmid (01-01-2019)“…DNA vaccines require a vector to replicate genes and express encoding antigens. Antibiotic resistance genes are often used as selection markers, which must not…”
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Guide RNA genes up-regulated in Leishmania infantum metacyclic promastigotes
Published in Acta tropica (01-11-2018)“…The kinetoplastid parasite Leishmania infantum is responsible for zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in the mediterranean basin, where dogs are the reservoir…”
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Quantitative RNA Analysis Using RNA-Seq
Published in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) (2019)“…High-throughput sequencing of cDNA copies of mRNA (RNA-seq) provides a digital readout of mRNA levels over several orders of magnitude, as well as mapping the…”
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An insight into differential protein abundance throughout Leishmania donovani promastigote growth and differentiation
Published in International microbiology (01-01-2023)“…Leishmania donovani causes anthroponotic visceral leishmaniasis, responsible for about 50,000 annual deaths worldwide. Current therapies have considerable side…”
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Proteome Profiling of Leishmania Infantum Promastigotes
Published in The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology (01-07-2011)“…A proteome analysis of the promastigote stage of the trypanosomatid parasite Leishmania infantum (MON-1 zymodeme) is described here for the first time. Total…”
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In vitro infectivity and differential gene expression of Leishmania infantum metacyclic promastigotes: negative selection with peanut agglutinin in culture versus isolation from the stomodeal valve of Phlebotomus perniciosus
Published in BMC genomics (20-05-2016)“…Leishmania infantum is the protozoan parasite responsible for zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean basin. A recent outbreak in humans has been…”
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An Insight into the Constitutive Proteome Throughout Leishmania donovani Promastigote Growth and Differentiation
Published in International microbiology (01-03-2019)“…Anthroponotic visceral leishmaniasis is a life-threatening disease caused by Leishmania donovani (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) in East Africa and the…”
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