Search Results - "Paul, Aditya S"
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PfCDPK1 mediated signaling in erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum
Published in Nature communications (05-07-2017)“…Calcium Dependent Protein Kinases are key effectors of calcium signaling in malaria parasite. PfCDPK1 is critical for asexual development of Plasmodium…”
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Inhibition of malaria and babesiosis parasites by putative red blood cell targeting small molecules
Published in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology (20-03-2024)“…Chemotherapies for malaria and babesiosis frequently succumb to the emergence of pathogen-related drug-resistance. Host-targeted therapies are thought to be…”
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Co-option of Plasmodium falciparum PP1 for egress from host erythrocytes
Published in Nature communications (15-07-2020)“…Asexual proliferation of the Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria follows a developmental program that alternates non-canonical intraerythrocytic…”
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Parasite Calcineurin Regulates Host Cell Recognition and Attachment by Apicomplexans
Published in Cell host & microbe (08-07-2015)“…Apicomplexans invade a variety of metazoan host cells through mechanisms involving host cell receptor engagement and secretion of parasite factors…”
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Fussing About Fission: Defining Variety Among Mainstream and Exotic Apicomplexan Cell Division Modes
Published in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology (05-06-2020)“…Cellular reproduction defines life, yet our textbook-level understanding of cell division is limited to a small number of model organisms centered around…”
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Extensive Shared Chemosensitivity between Malaria and Babesiosis Blood-Stage Parasites
Published in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (01-08-2016)“…The apicomplexan parasites that cause malaria and babesiosis invade and proliferate within erythrocytes. To assess the potential for common antiparasitic…”
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Using a Genetically Encoded Sensor to Identify Inhibitors of Toxoplasma gondii Ca2+ Signaling
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (29-04-2016)“…The life cycles of apicomplexan parasites progress in accordance with fluxes in cytosolic Ca2+. Such fluxes are necessary for events like motility and egress…”
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Energetic Requirements for Processive Elongation of Actin Filaments by FH1FH2-formins
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (01-05-2009)“…Formin-homology (FH) 2 domains from formin proteins associate processively with the barbed ends of actin filaments through many rounds of actin subunit…”
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Specific phosphorylation of the PfRh2b invasion ligand of Plasmodium falciparum
Published in Biochemical journal (15-06-2013)“…Red blood cell invasion by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum relies on a complex protein network that uses low and high affinity receptor-ligand…”
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Host–parasite interactions that guide red blood cell invasion by malaria parasites
Published in Current opinion in hematology (01-05-2015)“…PURPOSE OF REVIEWMalaria is caused by the infection and proliferation of parasites from the genus Plasmodium in red blood cells (RBCs). A free Plasmodium…”
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Comparative chemical genomics in Babesia species identifies the alkaline phosphatase PhoD as a determinant of antiparasitic resistance
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27-02-2024)“…is an emerging zoonosis and widely distributed veterinary infection caused by 100+ species of parasites. The diversity of parasites and the lack of specific…”
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Targeting Plasmodium Proteases to Block Malaria Parasite Escape and Entry
Published in Trends in parasitology (01-02-2018)“…Proliferation of malaria parasites in a host requires mechanisms to spread between red blood cells (RBCs). We discuss here the implications for biology and…”
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A forward genetic screen identifies erythrocyte CD55 as essential for Plasmodium falciparum invasion
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (08-05-2015)“…Efforts to identify host determinants for malaria have been hindered by the absence of a nucleus in erythrocytes, which precludes genetic manipulation in the…”
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Host Cell Tropism and Adaptation of Blood-Stage Malaria Parasites: Challenges for Malaria Elimination
Published in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine (01-11-2017)“…and account for most of the mortality and morbidity associated with malaria in humans. Research and control efforts have focused on infections caused by and ,…”
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Review of the mechanism of processive actin filament elongation by formins
Published in Cell motility and the cytoskeleton (01-08-2009)“…We review recent structural and biophysical studies of the mechanism of action of formins, proteins that direct the assembly of unbranched actin filaments for…”
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Plasmodium falciparum CRK4 directs continuous rounds of DNA replication during schizogony
Published in Nature microbiology (17-02-2017)“…Plasmodium parasites, the causative agents of malaria, have evolved a unique cell division cycle in the clinically relevant asexual blood stage of infection 1…”
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A malaria parasite formin regulates actin polymerization and localizes to the parasite-erythrocyte moving junction during invasion
Published in Cell host & microbe (13-03-2008)“…Malaria parasites invade host cells using actin-based motility, a process requiring parasite actin filament nucleation and polymerization. Malaria and other…”
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Erratum: Plasmodium falciparum CRK4 directs continuous rounds of DNA replication during schizogony
Published in Nature microbiology (06-03-2017)“…Nature Microbiology 2, 17017 (2017); published online 17 February 2017; corrected 6 March 2017. In the version of this Letter originally published, the in-text…”
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The Role of the FH1 Domain and Profilin in Formin-Mediated Actin-Filament Elongation and Nucleation
Published in Current biology (08-01-2008)“…Formin proteins nucleate actin filaments de novo and stay associated with the growing barbed end. Whereas the formin-homology (FH) 2 domains mediate processive…”
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Energetic Requirements for Processive Elongation of Actin Filaments by FH1FH2-forminsS
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (01-05-2009)“…Formin-homology (FH) 2 domains from formin proteins associate processively with the barbed ends of actin filaments through many rounds of actin subunit…”
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