Lactoferrin and lactoferricin endocytosis halt Giardia cell growth and prevent infective cyst production

LS Frontera, S Moyano, G Quassollo… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Lactoferrin (LF) is an 80 KDa iron-binding glycoprotein that plays a significant role in the
innate immune system and is considered to be an important microbicide molecule. It has …

Identification of actin filament-associated proteins in Giardia lamblia

MC Steele-Ogus, RS Johnson, MJ MacCoss… - Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The deep-branching protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia is the causative agent of the
intestinal disease giardiasis. Consistent with its proposed evolutionary position, many …

Cell Biology of the Life Cycle of Giardia intestinalis

M Benchimol, APR Gadelha, W de Souza - Lifecycles of Pathogenic …, 2022 - Springer
Giardia intestinalis (G. lamblia, G. duodenalis) is the agent of Giardia sis, a disease widely
prevalent throughout the world. It has a life cycle involving two developmental stages …

Phosphoinositide binding profiles of the PX domains of Giardia lamblia

A Jana, A Sinha, S Sarkar - Parasitology international, 2017 - Elsevier
The membrane trafficking machinery that functions at the endomembrane system of Giardia
lamblia appears to be significantly different from that present in most model eukaryotes. This …

Response to Zamponi et al.

AB Hehl, C Faso - Trends in parasitology, 2017 - cell.com
In their Spotlight article titled 'Endocytosis in Giardia: evidence of absence'recently
published in Trends in Parasitology [1], Zamponi and colleagues comment on our recent …

Identification of Actin Filament Interactors in Giardia lamblia

MC Steele-Ogus, R Johnson, M MacCoss, AR Paredez - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The deep-branching protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia is the causative agent of the
intestinal disease giardiasis. Consistent with its proposed evolutionary position, many …