[HTML][HTML] Malaria: biology and disease

AF Cowman, J Healer, D Marapana, K Marsh - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Malaria has been a major global health problem of humans through history and is a leading
cause of death and disease across many tropical and subtropical countries. Over the last …

Entry of Listeria monocytogenes in mammalian epithelial cells: an updated view

J Pizarro-Cerdá, A Kühbacher… - Cold Spring …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterial pathogen that promotes its internalization into host
epithelial cells. Interaction between the bacterial surface molecules InlA and InlB and their …

A human monoclonal antibody prevents malaria infection by targeting a new site of vulnerability on the parasite

NK Kisalu, AH Idris, C Weidle, Y Flores-Garcia… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Development of a highly effective vaccine or antibodies for the prevention and
ultimately elimination of malaria is urgently needed. Here we report the isolation of a number …

A public antibody lineage that potently inhibits malaria infection through dual binding to the circumsporozoite protein

J Tan, BK Sack, D Oyen, I Zenklusen, L Piccoli… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Immunization with attenuated Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites (PfSPZs) has been shown
to be protective against malaria, but the features of the antibody response induced by this …

Malaria parasite development in the mosquito and infection of the mammalian host

ASI Aly, AM Vaughan, SHI Kappe - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Plasmodium sporozoites are the product of a complex developmental process in the
mosquito vector and are destined to infect the mammalian liver. Attention has been drawn to …

The malaria circumsporozoite protein has two functional domains, each with distinct roles as sporozoites journey from mosquito to mammalian host

A Coppi, R Natarajan, G Pradel, BL Bennett… - Journal of Experimental …, 2011 - rupress.org
Plasmodium sporozoites make a remarkable journey from the mosquito midgut to the
mammalian liver. The sporozoite's major surface protein, circumsporozoite protein (CSP), is …

[HTML][HTML] Looking under the skin: the first steps in malarial infection and immunity

R Ménard, J Tavares, I Cockburn, M Markus… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Malaria, which is caused by Plasmodium spp., starts with an asymptomatic phase, during
which sporozoites, the parasite form that is injected into the skin by a mosquito, develop into …

A Plant-Like Kinase in Plasmodium falciparum Regulates Parasite Egress from Erythrocytes

JD Dvorin, DC Martyn, SD Patel, JS Grimley… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Clinical malaria is associated with the proliferation of Plasmodium parasites in human
erythrocytes. The coordinated processes of parasite egress from and invasion into …

[HTML][HTML] Interrogating the Plasmodium Sporozoite Surface: Identification of Surface-Exposed Proteins and Demonstration of Glycosylation on CSP and TRAP by Mass …

KE Swearingen, SE Lindner, L Shi, MJ Shears… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Malaria parasite infection is initiated by the mosquito-transmitted sporozoite stage, a highly
motile invasive cell that targets hepatocytes in the liver for infection. A promising approach to …

Malaria parasite liver infection and exoerythrocytic biology

AM Vaughan, SHI Kappe - Cold Spring …, 2017 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
In their infection cycle, malaria parasites undergo replication and population expansions
within the vertebrate host and the mosquito vector. Host infection initiates with sporozoite …