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| Gunnar R MairSummaryAffiliation: Faculdade de Medicina Country: Portugal Publications
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Universal features of post-transcriptional gene regulation are critical for Plasmodium zygote developmentGunnar R Mair
Leiden Malaria Research Group, Department of Parasitology, Centre for Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
PLoS Pathog 6:e1000767. 2010..Therefore, translational repression may offer avenues as a target for the generation of transmission blocking strategies and contribute to limiting the spread of malaria...
A conserved U-rich RNA region implicated in regulation of translation in Plasmodium female gametocytesJoanna A M Braks
Department of Parasitology, Centre of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Centre LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
Nucleic Acids Res 36:1176-86. 2008..These results demonstrate for the first time in a unicellular organism that the 5' or the 3'-UTR of TR-associated transcripts play an important and conserved role in mediating TR in female gametocytes...
Proteome analysis of separated male and female gametocytes reveals novel sex-specific Plasmodium biologyShahid M Khan
Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
Cell 121:675-87. 2005..By identification of gender-specific protein kinases and phosphatases and using targeted gene disruption of two kinases, new sex-specific regulatory pathways were defined...
High efficiency transfection of Plasmodium berghei facilitates novel selection proceduresChris J Janse
Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
Mol Biochem Parasitol 145:60-70. 2006..The combination of enhanced transfection efficiency and a versatile rodent model provides a basis for the further development of novel tools for high throughput genome manipulation...
Experimentally controlled downregulation of the histone chaperone FACT in Plasmodium berghei reveals that it is critical to male gamete fertilityEliane C Laurentino
Leiden Malaria Research Group, Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands
Cell Microbiol 13:1956-74. 2011..Promoter swapping' is a powerful approach for the functional analysis of proteins in gametocytes (and beyond) that are essential during asexual blood-stage development...
