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The origin of all mitochondria can be traced to the symbiotic arrangement that resulted in the emergence of eukaryotes in a world that was exclusively…
Authors: Heather J Painter, Joanne M Morrisey, Michael W Mather, Akhil B Vaidya
Source: Nature. 2007 Mar 1
View Full TextMitochondria in malaria parasites have some unusual evolutionary and functional features. The drastic reduction in the size of their mitochondrial gen…
Authors: Akhil B Vaidya, Michael W Mather
Source: Annual review of microbiology. 2009
View Full TextHuman erythrocytes infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have increased permeabilities to many solutes. The plasmodial surface anio…
Authors: Abdulnaser Alkhalil, Ajay D Pillai, Abdullah A B Bokhari, Akhil B Vaidya, Sanjay A Desai
Source: Molecular microbiology. 2009 Apr
View Full TextParasitic organisms have emerged from nearly every corner of the eukaryotic kingdom and hence display tremendous diversity of form and function. This …
Authors: Michael W Mather, Akhil B Vaidya
Source: Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes. 2008 Oct
View Full TextIn evolutionary terms, mitochondria in apicomplexan parasites appear to be "relicts-in-the-making": they possess the smallest mitochondrial genomes kn…
Authors: Michael W Mather, Karl W Henry, Akhil B Vaidya
Source: Current drug targets. 2007 Jan
View Full TextThe parasite Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for hundreds of millions of cases of malaria, and kills more than one million African children annua…
Authors: Malcolm J Gardner, Neil Hall, Eula Fung, Owen White, Matthew Berriman, Richard W Hyman, Jane M Carlton, Arnab Pain, Karen E Nelson, Sharen Bowman,…
Source: Nature. 2002 Oct 3
View Full TextSpecies of malaria parasite that infect rodents have long been used as models for malaria disease research. Here we report the whole-genome shotgun se…
Authors: Jane M Carlton, Samuel V Angiuoli, Bernard B Suh, Taco W Kooij, Mihaela Pertea, Joana C Silva, Maria D Ermolaeva, Jonathan E Allen, Jeremy D Selengut, Hean L Koo,…
Source: Nature. 2002 Oct 3
View Full TextAuthors: Akhil B Vaidya, Heather J Painter, Joanne M Morrisey, Michael W Mather
Source: Trends in parasitology. 2008 Jan
View Full TextImmunization with Plasmodium yoelii merozoite surface protein-8 (PyMSP-8) has been shown to protect mice against lethal P. yoelii 17XL malaria. Here w…
Authors: Qifang Shi, Amy Cernetich, Thomas M Daly, Gina Galvan, Akhil B Vaidya, Lawrence W Bergman, James M Burns
Source: Infection and immunity. 2005 Oct
View Free Full TextPore-forming proteins are employed by many pathogens to achieve successful host colonization. Intracellular pathogens use pore-forming proteins to inv…
Authors: Karine Kaiser, Nelly Camargo, Isabelle Coppens, Joanne M Morrisey, Akhil B Vaidya, Stefan H I Kappe
Source: Molecular and biochemical parasitology. 2004 Jan
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