Malaria parasites cause much morbidity and mortality to their human hosts. From our
evolutionary perspective, this is because virulence is positively associated with parasite …

The development of a malaria vaccine seems to be a definite possibility despite the fact that
even individuals with a life time of endemic exposure do not develop sterile immunity. An …

The C-terminal region (cA) of the major autolysin AcmA of Lactococcus lactis contains three
highly similar repeated regions of 45 amino acid residues (LysM domains), which are …

ABSTRACT A novel display system is described that allows highly efficient immobilization of
heterologous proteins on bacterial surfaces in applications for which the use of genetically …

The merozoite surface protein (MSP) 2 is a vaccine candidate antigen of Plasmodium
falciparum that is polymorphic in natural populations. In a prospective cohort study in two …

A putative protective protein from Plasmodium falciparum merozoites, MSA2, was expressed
in two different ways on the cell surface of the Gram-positive food-grade bacterium …

Mutations in the genes encoding enzymes responsible for the incorporation of d-Ala into the
cell wall of Lactococcus lactis affect autolysis. An L. lactis alanine racemase (alr) mutant is …

Intimate Molecular Interactions of P. falciparum Merozoite Proteins Involved in Invasion of Red
Blood Cells and Their Implications for Vaccine Design | Chemical Reviews ACS ACS …

Lactococcus lactis expresses the homologous glucosaminidases AcmB, AcmC, AcmA and
AcmD. The latter two have three C-terminal LysM repeats for peptidoglycan binding. AcmD …

Malaria is one the most serious infectious diseases with over 200 million clinical cases
annually. Most cases of the severe disease are caused by Plasmodium falciparum. The …