A review of the global burden, novel diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccine targets for cryptosporidium

W Checkley, AC White, D Jaganath… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Cryptosporidium spp are well recognised as causes of diarrhoeal disease during
waterborne epidemics and in immunocompromised hosts. Studies have also drawn …

Uncovering the essential genes of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum by saturation mutagenesis

M Zhang, C Wang, TD Otto, J Oberstaller, X Liao… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Malaria remains a devastating global parasitic disease, with the majority of
malaria deaths caused by the highly virulent Plasmodium falciparum. The extreme AT-bias …

Evolution of galactoglycerolipid biosynthetic pathways–from cyanobacteria to primary plastids and from primary to secondary plastids

D Petroutsos, S Amiar, H Abida, LJ Dolch… - Progress in lipid …, 2014 - Elsevier
Photosynthetic membranes have a unique lipid composition that has been remarkably well
conserved from cyanobacteria to chloroplasts. These membranes are characterized by a …

PATRIC, the bacterial bioinformatics database and analysis resource

AR Wattam, D Abraham, O Dalay, TL Disz… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Pathosystems Resource Integration Center (PATRIC) is the all-bacterial
Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC)(http://www. patricbrc. org). A joint effort by two of the …

Disbiome database: linking the microbiome to disease

Y Janssens, J Nielandt, A Bronselaer, N Debunne… - BMC microbiology, 2018 - Springer
Background Recent research has provided fascinating indications and evidence that the
host health is linked to its microbial inhabitants. Due to the development of high-throughput …

EuPathDB: the eukaryotic pathogen genomics database resource

C Aurrecoechea, A Barreto, EY Basenko… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Eukaryotic Pathogen Genomics Database Resource (EuPathDB,
http://eupathdb. org) is a collection of databases covering 170+ eukaryotic pathogens …

Chromerid genomes reveal the evolutionary path from photosynthetic algae to obligate intracellular parasites

YH Woo, H Ansari, TD Otto, CM Klinger, M Kolisko… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
The eukaryotic phylum Apicomplexa encompasses thousands of obligate intracellular
parasites of humans and animals with immense socio-economic and health impacts. We …

A toolkit enabling efficient, scalable and reproducible gene tagging in trypanosomatids

S Dean, J Sunter, RJ Wheeler, I Hodkinson… - Open …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
One of the first steps in understanding a protein's function is to determine its localization;
however, the methods for localizing proteins in some systems have not kept pace with the …

Companion: a web server for annotation and analysis of parasite genomes

S Steinbiss, F Silva-Franco, B Brunk, B Foth… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Currently available sequencing technologies enable quick and economical sequencing of
many new eukaryotic parasite (apicomplexan or kinetoplastid) species or strains. Compared …

Comparative ribosome profiling reveals extensive translational complexity in different Trypanosoma brucei life cycle stages

JJ Vasquez, CC Hon, JT Vanselow… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
While gene expression is a fundamental and tightly controlled cellular process that is
regulated at multiple steps, the exact contribution of each step remains unknown in any …