apicomplexan parasites
Cationic amino acid transporters play key roles in the survival and transmission of apicomplexan parasites
... picomplexan parasites include the causative agents of malaria (Plasmodium spp) and toxoplasmosis ...intracellular parasites, apicomplexans lost many biosynthetic pathways and became reliant on their hosts ...
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Endemic, exotic and novel apicomplexan parasites detected during a national study of ticks from companion animals in Australia
... Intracellular apicomplexan parasites consist of the groups haemococcidia, haemogregarines, haemosporidia and piroplasms; collectively these haemoprotozoa are transmitted by haematophagous vectors, such as ...
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Dynamics and Fate of the inner Membrane Complex in Apicomplexan Parasites
... Apicomplexan parasites are highly polarized eukaryotic cells harboring a sophisti- cated endomembrane system that include an endoplasmic reticulum, a single Golgi apparatus, an unusual set of secretory ...
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The Apicoplast: A Review of the Derived Plastid of Apicomplexan Parasites
... Why apicomplexan parasites should possess a plastid was a confronting question to greet malariologists who first took an interest in this unexpected ...animal parasites? Indeed many questioned the ...
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Coccidiosis: recent advancements in the immunobiology of<em> Eimeria</em> species, preventive measures, and the importance of vaccination as a control tool against these Apicomplexan parasites
... immunity. Apicomplexan parasites are complex with large genomes (eg, ...these parasites may help researchers design effective ways to control not just coccidiosis but the whole realm of ...
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Make It or Take It: Fatty Acid Metabolism of Apicomplexan Parasites
... with apicomplexan parasites are the cause of several important hu- man diseases (malaria, toxoplasmosis, and cryptosporidiosis) affecting literally millions of people around the ...these parasites ...
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In silico analysis of the cyclophilin repertoire of apicomplexan parasites
... important parasites, current knowledge about the anti-parasitic mechanisms of CsA is rather ...of apicomplexan parasites are also interesting from an evolutionary point of view, since a novel group ...
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Alternative Splicing in Apicomplexan Parasites
... in apicomplexan parasites, which require substantial processing of sequencing data before it is useable ...these parasites, has only sparse annotation ( ⬃ 100 genes with annotated alternative tran- ...
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Mutual interactions of the apicomplexan parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Eimeria tenella with cultured poultry macrophages
... both parasites increased during co-infections compared to mono-infected ...both parasites is tightly linked to the host cell types and their various responses to ...both parasites that might be most ...
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Phylogenetic analysis of apicomplexan parasites infecting commercially valuable species from the North East Atlantic reveals high levels of diversity and insights into the evolution of the group
... The uncorrected p-distances calculated for sequence pairs in each group are presented in supplementary mater- ial (Additional file 3: Tables S1-S5). This genetic distance was chosen to allow comparisons across all ...
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Autophagy Related Protein ATG18 Regulates Apicoplast Biogenesis in Apicomplexan Parasites
... of parasites with abnormal apicoplast branching and segregation as described above after the removal of Shld-1 for the indicated number of ...PfATG18-3HA-DD parasites cultured in the absence or presence of ...
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Eimeripain, a cathepsin b-like cysteine protease, expressed throughout sporulation of the apicomplexan parasite Eimeria tenella
... In model apicomplexan parasites, CPs have been implicated mainly in key facets of asexual cell biology. This is reinforced in our study where we show that eimeripain plays a role in cell invasion by E. ...
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Stage-specific expression of protease genes in the apicomplexan parasite, Eimeria tenella
... other apicomplexan parasites are known to possess substantially more prote- ase genes (Table 4); thus, for example, there are at least 70 in Cryposporidium parvum, more than 80 in ...complexan ...
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The genome of the protozoan parasite Cystoisospora suis and a reverse vaccinology approach to identify vaccine candidates
... Most apicomplexan parasites possess a special organelle called the apicoplast (Sato, 2011), which is a plastid acquired through secondary horizontal transfer from an algal ancestor and has func- tions ...
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A SAS 6 like protein suggests that the Toxoplasma conoid complex evolved from flagellar components
... collectively, these organisms are classified as alveolates (76, 77). It is likely that the last common ancestor of apicomplexans and di- noflagellates had an open-sided “incomplete” conoid that was modified into a closed ...
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Apicomplexan autophagy and modulation of autophagy in parasite-infected host cells
... 1]. Apicomplexan parasites also lack the equivalent of mammalian lysosomes, so they rather resemble fungi and plants by degrading autophagosome cargo in vacuoles with a proteolytic func- ...as ...
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Fatal infection with emerging apicomplexan parasite Hepatozoon silvestris in a domestic cat
... Hepatozoon species are apicomplexan parasites (family Hepatozoidae) with more than 340 species recognized [1, 2]. Unlike most vector-borne protozoan pathogens which are transmitted during a blood meal, ...
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Comparative sequence analysis of Cyclospora cayetanensis apicoplast genomes originating from diverse geographical regions
... many apicomplexan parasites allowed a comparative genomics approach to correct a few no- menclature or mis-identification issues in published apico- plast ...plexan parasites have been expanding to ...
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Functional Characterization of an Evolutionarily Distinct Phosphopantetheinyl Transferase in the Apicomplexan Cryptosporidium parvum
... these apicomplexan FASs, virtually nothing was previously known about the activation and regulation of these ...three apicomplexan parasites: surfactin production element (SFP) type in ...
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Ribonucleotide Reductase as a Target to Control Apicomplexan Diseases
... the apicomplexan genus Plasmodium, which infect hundreds of millions of people each year and kill close to one ...the apicomplexan-caused diseases, other members of the eukaryotic phylum Apicomplexa are ...
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