21st century natural product research and drug development and traditional medicines

LT Ngo, JI Okogun, WR Folk - Natural product reports, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1987 to 2013 Natural products and related structures are essential sources of new
pharmaceuticals, because of the immense variety of functionally relevant secondary …

Revisiting gametocyte biology in malaria parasites

P Ngotho, AB Soares, F Hentzschel… - FEMS microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Gametocytes are the only form of the malaria parasite that is transmissible to the mosquito
vector. They are present at low levels in blood circulation and significant knowledge gaps …

The immune epitope database (IEDB): 2018 update

R Vita, S Mahajan, JA Overton, SK Dhanda… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB, iedb. org) captures experimental data
confined in figures, text and tables of the scientific literature, making it freely available and …

A comprehensive subcellular atlas of the Toxoplasma proteome via hyperLOPIT provides spatial context for protein functions

K Barylyuk, L Koreny, H Ke, S Butterworth, OM Crook… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Apicomplexan parasites cause major human disease and food insecurity. They owe their
considerable success to highly specialized cell compartments and structures. These …

The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2020: extending immunopharmacology content and introducing the IUPHAR/MMV Guide to MALARIA …

JF Armstrong, E Faccenda, SD Harding… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY (www. guidetopharmacology. org) is
an open-access, expert-curated database of molecular interactions between ligands and …

Generating high quality libraries for DIA MS with empirically corrected peptide predictions

BC Searle, KE Swearingen, CA Barnes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Data-independent acquisition approaches typically rely on experiment-specific spectrum
libraries, requiring offline fractionation and tens to hundreds of injections. We demonstrate a …

Zika virus evolution and spread in the Americas

HC Metsky, CB Matranga, S Wohl, SF Schaffner… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Although the recent Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in the Americas and its link to birth defects
have attracted a great deal of attention,, much remains unknown about ZIKV disease …

The Malaria Cell Atlas: Single parasite transcriptomes across the complete Plasmodium life cycle

VM Howick, AJC Russell, T Andrews, H Heaton… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Plasmodium parasites, the causative agent of malaria, are single-celled
organisms with distinct morphological developmental stages each specialized to inhabit …

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 …

Simulation-based comprehensive benchmarking of RNA-seq aligners

G Baruzzo, KE Hayer, EJ Kim, B Di Camillo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Alignment is the first step in most RNA-seq analysis pipelines, and the accuracy of
downstream analyses depends heavily on it. Unlike most steps in the pipeline, alignment is …