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| RHOEL DAVID DINGLASANSummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Country: USA Publications
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Peptide mimics as surrogate immunogens of mosquito midgut carbohydrate malaria transmission blocking targetsRhoel R Dinglasan
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 20 Penn Street, HSF2 414, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Vaccine 23:2717-24. 2005..Therefore, it is imperative that peptides not only need to be functional mimics but also complete mimotopes to effectively direct the vertebrate immune response towards the nominal, protective carbohydrate epitope on mosquito microvilli...
Flipping the paradigm on malaria transmission-blocking vaccinesRhoel R Dinglasan
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Trends Parasitol 24:364-70. 2008..Here, we review the current state of knowledge of mosquito-based TBVs and discuss the utility of this approach for future vaccine development...
Disruption of Plasmodium falciparum development by antibodies against a conserved mosquito midgut antigenRhoel R Dinglasan
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:13461-6. 2007..These results advance our understanding of malaria parasite-mosquito host interactions and guide in the design of transmission-blocking vaccines...
Expression, immunogenicity, histopathology, and potency of a mosquito-based malaria transmission-blocking recombinant vaccineD K Mathias
W Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Infect Immun 80:1606-14. 2012....
An improved method for the in vitro differentiation of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes into ookinetesAnil K Ghosh
Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Dept of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Malar J 9:194. 2010..This article reports on investigations of five different ookinete media, in an effort to improve the in vitro transformation efficiency of P. falciparum gametocytes into mature ookinetes and their infectivity of the mosquito midgut...
Plasmodium falciparum ookinetes require mosquito midgut chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans for cell invasionRhoel R Dinglasan
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:15882-7. 2007..We provide evidence for the in vivo role of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans in Plasmodium falciparum invasion of the midgut and insight into the molecular mechanisms mediating parasite-mosquito interactions...
Insight into a conserved lifestyle: protein-carbohydrate adhesion strategies of vector-borne pathogensRhoel R Dinglasan
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4008, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Infect Immun 73:7797-807. 2005
Monoclonal antibody MG96 completely blocks Plasmodium yoelii development in Anopheles stephensiRhoel R Dinglasan
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Infect Immun 71:6995-7001. 2003..Future investigation of the carbohydrate epitope as well as gene identification should provide valuable insight into the possible mechanisms of ookinete attachment and invasion of mosquito midgut epithelial cells...
Plasmodium yoelii: axenic development of the parasite mosquito stagesJohanna M Porter-Kelley
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Exp Parasitol 112:99-108. 2006..Our cell free system for development of the mosquito stages of P. yoelii provides a simplified approach to generate sporozoites that may be for biological assays and genetic manipulations...
Sugar epitopes as potential universal disease transmission blocking targetsRhoel R Dinglasan
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 20 Penn Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Insect Biochem Mol Biol 35:1-10. 2005..As such, these glycotopes may represent potential transmission blocking vaccine targets for a wide range of vector-borne pathogens...
Research Grants
- Plasmodium carbohydrate receptors in Anopheles gambiaeRHOEL DAVID DINGLASAN; Fiscal Year: 2007..This line of experimentation will open up new avenues of research through the basic, glycobiological analysis of the mosquito midgut biology. ..
- Small molecule protein-glycan inhib. as malaria transmission-blocking therapueticRHOEL DAVID RAMOS DINGLASAN; Fiscal Year: 2010....
