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Sialome diversity of ticks revealed by RNAseq of single tick salivary glands by Perner, Jan, Kropáčková, Sára, Kopáček, Petr, Ribeiro, José M C

“…Ticks salivate while feeding on their hosts. Saliva helps blood feeding through host anti-hemostatic and immunomodulatory components. Previous transcriptomic…”
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An Insight into the Sialome of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum, with a Glimpse on Its Time Dependent Gene Expression by Karim, Shahid, Ribeiro, José M C

“…Hard ticks feed for several days or weeks on their hosts. Blood feeding is assisted by tick saliva, which is injected in the host skin regularly, alternating…”
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A deep insight into the sialotranscriptome of the gulf coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum by Karim, Shahid, Singh, Parul, Ribeiro, José M C

“…Saliva of blood sucking arthropods contains compounds that antagonize their hosts' hemostasis, which include platelet aggregation, vasoconstriction and blood…”
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TickSialoFam (TSFam): A Database That Helps to Classify Tick Salivary Proteins, a Review on Tick Salivary Protein Function and Evolution, With Considerations on the Tick Sialome Switching Phenomenon by Ribeiro, José M C, Mans, Ben J

“…Tick saliva contains a complex mixture of peptides and non-peptides that counteract their hosts' hemostasis, immunity, and tissue-repair reactions. Recent…”
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A Deep Insight into the Sialome of Male and Female Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes by Ribeiro, José M C, Martin-Martin, Ines, Arcà, Bruno, Calvo, Eric

“…Only adult female mosquitoes feed on blood, while both genders take sugar meals. Accordingly, several compounds associated with blood feeding (i.e…”
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PfSETvs methylation of histone H3K36 represses virulence genes in Plasmodium falciparum by Jiang, Lubin, Mu, Jianbing, Zhang, Qingfeng, Ni, Ting, Srinivasan, Prakash, Rayavara, Kempaiah, Yang, Wenjing, Turner, Louise, Lavstsen, Thomas, Theander, Thor G., Peng, Weiqun, Wei, Guiying, Jing, Qingqing, Wakabayashi, Yoshiyuki, Bansal, Abhisheka, Luo, Yan, Ribeiro, José M. C., Scherf, Artur, Aravind, L., Zhu, Jun, Zhao, Keji, Miller, Louis H.

“…The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum escapes immune detection by expressing one of 60 antigenically distinct var genes at any one time during the course…”
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A longitudinal transcriptomic analysis from unfed to post-engorgement midguts of adult female Ixodes scapularis by Lu, Stephen, Martins, Larissa A., Kotál, Jan, Ribeiro, José M. C., Tirloni, Lucas

“…The hematophagy behavior has evolved independently several times within the Arthropoda phylum. Interestingly, the process of acquiring a blood meal in ticks is…”
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Revisiting the sialome of the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis by Lu, Stephen, Danchenko, Monika, Macaluso, Kevin R, Ribeiro, José M C

“…The hematophagous behaviour emerged independently in several instances during arthropod evolution. Survey of salivary gland and saliva composition and its…”
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Tissue- and time-dependent transcription in Ixodes ricinus salivary glands and midguts when blood feeding on the vertebrate host by Kotsyfakis, Michalis, Schwarz, Alexandra, Erhart, Jan, Ribeiro, José M. C.

“…Ixodes ricinus is a tick that transmits the pathogens of Lyme and several arboviral diseases. Pathogens invade the tick midgut, disseminate through the…”
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PfCDPK1 is critical for malaria parasite gametogenesis and mosquito infection by Bansal, Abhisheka, Molina-Cruz, Alvaro, Brzostowski, Joseph, Liu, Poching, Luo, Yan, Gunalan, Karthigayan, Li, Yuesheng, Ribeiro, José M. C., Miller, Louis H.

“…Efforts to knock out Plasmodium falciparum calcium-dependent protein kinase 1 (PfCDPK1) from asexual erythrocytic stage have not been successful, indicating an…”
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Exploring the transcriptome of immature stages of Ornithodoros hermsi, the soft-tick vector of tick-borne relapsing fever by de Sousa-Paula, Lucas C., Berger, Markus, Talyuli, Octavio A. C., Schwartz, Cindi L., Saturday, Greg A., Ribeiro, José M. C., Tirloni, Lucas

“…Blood-feeding behavior has independently evolved in arthropods multiple times. Unlike hard ticks, soft ticks employ a rapid-feeding strategy for hematophagy,…”
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An insight into the sialotranscriptome and virome of Amazonian anophelines by Scarpassa, Vera Margarete, Debat, Humbeto Julio, Alencar, Ronildo Baiatone, Saraiva, José Ferreira, Calvo, Eric, Arcà, Bruno, Ribeiro, José M C

“…Saliva of mosquitoes contains anti-platelet, anti-clotting, vasodilatory, anti-complement and anti-inflammatory substances that help the blood feeding process…”
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Human CD117 (cKit)+ innate lymphoid cells have a discrete transcriptional profile at homeostasis and are expanded during filarial infection by Boyd, Alexis, Ribeiro, José M C, Nutman, Thomas B

“…Since innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) have been found to play a role in the immune response to helminth parasites in rodents, we sought to determine their role in…”
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Lundep, a sand fly salivary endonuclease increases Leishmania parasite survival in neutrophils and inhibits XIIa contact activation in human plasma by Chagas, Andrezza C, Oliveira, Fabiano, Debrabant, Alain, Valenzuela, Jesus G, Ribeiro, José M C, Calvo, Eric

“…Neutrophils are the host's first line of defense against infections, and their extracellular traps (NET) were recently shown to kill Leishmania parasites. Here…”
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A tick salivary protein targets cathepsin G and chymase and inhibits host inflammation and platelet aggregation by Chmelar, Jindrich, Oliveira, Carlo J., Rezacova, Pavlina, Francischetti, Ivo M.B., Kovarova, Zuzana, Pejler, Gunnar, Kopacek, Peter, Ribeiro, José M.C., Mares, Michael, Kopecky, Jan, Kotsyfakis, Michail

“…Platelet aggregation and acute inflammation are key processes in vertebrate defense to a skin injury. Recent studies uncovered the mediation of 2 serine…”
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A Deeper Insight into the Tick Salivary Protein Families under the Light of Alphafold2 and Dali: Introducing the TickSialoFam 2.0 Database by Mans, Ben J, Andersen, John F, Ribeiro, José M C

“…Hard ticks feed for several days or weeks on their hosts and their saliva contains thousands of polypeptides belonging to dozens of families, as identified by…”
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Genomics of Loa loa, a Wolbachia-free filarial parasite of humans by Desjardins, Christopher A, Cerqueira, Gustavo C, Goldberg, Jonathan M, Hotopp, Julie C Dunning, Haas, Brian J, Zucker, Jeremy, Ribeiro, José M C, Saif, Sakina, Levin, Joshua Z, Fan, Lin, Zeng, Qiandong, Russ, Carsten, Wortman, Jennifer R, Fink, Doran L, Birren, Bruce W, Nutman, Thomas B

“…Thomas Nutman and colleagues report the draft genome of the filarial pathogen Loa loa , the African eyeworm. They also report coverage of two other filarial…”
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Identification and Mechanistic Analysis of a Novel Tick-Derived Inhibitor of Thrombin by Jablonka, Willy, Kotsyfakis, Michalis, Mizurini, Daniella M, Monteiro, Robson Q, Lukszo, Jan, Drake, Steven K, Ribeiro, José M C, Andersen, John F

“…A group of peptides from the salivary gland of the tick Hyalomma marginatum rufipes, a vector of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever show weak similarity to the…”
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Towards a semen proteome of the dengue vector mosquito: protein identification and potential functions by Sirot, Laura K, Hardstone, Melissa C, Helinski, Michelle E H, Ribeiro, José M C, Kimura, Mari, Deewatthanawong, Prasit, Wolfner, Mariana F, Harrington, Laura C

“…No commercially licensed vaccine or treatment is available for dengue fever, a potentially lethal infection that impacts millions of lives annually. New tools…”
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Stage-specific proteomic expression patterns of the human filarial parasite Brugia malayi and its endosymbiont Wolbachia by Bennuru, Sasisekhar, Meng, Zhaojing, Ribeiro, José M.C, Semnani, Roshanak Tolouei, Ghedin, Elodie, Chan, King, Lucas, David A, Veenstra, Timothy D, Nutman, Thomas B

“…Global proteomic analyses of pathogens have thus far been limited to unicellular organisms (e.g., protozoa and bacteria). Proteomic analyses of most eukaryotic…”
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