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Zhou X, Huang JL, Shen HM, Xu B, Chen JH, Zhou XN. Immunomics analysis of Babesia microti protein markers by high-throughput screening assay. Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2018; 9:1468-1474. [PMID: 30017725 DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Revised: 07/01/2018] [Accepted: 07/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Babesia microti is a protozoan considered to be a major etiological agent of emerging human babesiosis. It imposes an increasing public-health threat and can be overlooked because of low parasitemia or mixed infection with other pathogens. More sensitive and specific antigens are needed to improve the diagnosis of babesiosis. To screen the immune diagnostic antigens of B. microti, 204 sequences from homologue proteins between B. microti and B. bovis genome sequences in PiroplasmaDB were selected. The high throughput cloned and expressed B. microti proteins were screened with the sera from the BALB/c mice infected by B. microti using protein arrays. Ten (5.9%, 10/169) highly immunoreactive proteins were identified, and most (80%, 8/10) of these highly immunoreactive proteins had not been characterized before, making them potentially useful as candidate antigens for the development of diagnostic tools for babesiosis.
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- Xia Zhou
- Medical School of Soochow University, No. 199 Renai Road, Suzhou 215123, People's Republic of China; National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology of the Chinese Ministry of Health, Shanghai 200025, People's Republic of China.
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- National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology of the Chinese Ministry of Health, Shanghai 200025, People's Republic of China.
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- National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology of the Chinese Ministry of Health, Shanghai 200025, People's Republic of China.
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- National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology of the Chinese Ministry of Health, Shanghai 200025, People's Republic of China.
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- National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology of the Chinese Ministry of Health, Shanghai 200025, People's Republic of China.
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- National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology of the Chinese Ministry of Health, Shanghai 200025, People's Republic of China.
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Yoon TD, Lee HW, Kim YS, Choi HJ, Moon JO, Yoon S. Identification and analysis of expressed genes using a cDNA library from rat thymus during regeneration following cyclophosphamide-induced T cell depletion. Int J Mol Med 2013; 31:731-9. [PMID: 23314113 DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2013.1238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2012] [Accepted: 12/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Understanding the mechanisms of thymus regeneration is necessary for designing strategies to enhance host immunity when immune function is suppressed due to T cell depletion. In this study, expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis was performed following generation of a regenerating thymus cDNA library to identify genes expressed in thymus regeneration. A total of 1,000 ESTs were analyzed, of which 770 (77%) matched to known genes, 178 matched to unknown genes (17.8%) and 52 (5.2%) did not match any known sequences. The ESTs matched to known genes were grouped into eight functional categories: gene/protein synthesis (28%), metabolism (24%), cell signaling and communication (17%), cell structure and motility (6%), cell/organism defense and homeostasis (6%), cell division (3%), cell death/apoptosis (2%), and unclassified genes (14%). Based on the data of RT-PCR analysis, the expression of TLP, E2IG2, pincher, Paip2, TGF-β1, 4-1BB and laminin α3 genes was increased during thymus regeneration. These results provide extensive molecular information, for the first time, on thymus regeneration indicating that the regenerating thymus cDNA library may be a useful source for identifying various genes expressed during thymus regeneration.
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- Tae-Deuk Yoon
- Department of Anatomy, Pusan National University, School of Medicine, Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do 626-870, Republic of Korea
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Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase from the parasitic cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus: gene identification, biochemical characterization and comparison with the mouse ortholog. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2008; 161:32-43. [PMID: 18588919 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2008.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2008] [Revised: 05/30/2008] [Accepted: 06/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) degradation pathway consists of the enzymes GABA transaminase and succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) and is essential for the development and functionality of the nervous system in mammals, while little is known on its role in invertebrates. In this study we report the gene identification, cDNA cloning and heterologous functional expression of a SSADH from the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (R.) microplus. In contrast to mammals and the insect model organism Drosophila melanogaster, which have one SSADH gene, R. microplus possesses several gene copies. One representative of these genes has been functionally expressed in Escherichia coli. This recombinant cattle tick protein has potent NAD(+)-dependent SSADH activity, but possesses also marked enzymatic activity on other aliphatic and aromatic aldehyde substrates. Comparison of R. microplus SSADH enzyme kinetic properties as well as substrate and inhibitor specificities with those of a recombinant mammalian SSADH reveals overall similarities, but also subtle differences, that may be exploited for the design of specific inhibitors with selective acaricidal activity.
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Osorio EJ, Robledo SM, Bastida J. Alkaloids with antiprotozoal activity. THE ALKALOIDS. CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY 2008; 66:113-90. [PMID: 19025098 DOI: 10.1016/s1099-4831(08)00202-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Edison J Osorio
- Grupo de Investigación en Sustancias Bioactivas, Facultad de Química-Farmacéutica, Universidad de Antioquia, A. A. 1226, Medellín, Colombia.
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Bañuls AL, Hide M, Prugnolle F. Leishmania and the leishmaniases: a parasite genetic update and advances in taxonomy, epidemiology and pathogenicity in humans. ADVANCES IN PARASITOLOGY 2007; 64:1-109. [PMID: 17499100 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-308x(06)64001-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Leishmaniases remain a major public health problem today despite the vast amount of research conducted on Leishmania pathogens. The biological model is genetically and ecologically complex. This paper explores the advances in Leishmania genetics and reviews population structure, taxonomy, epidemiology and pathogenicity. Current knowledge of Leishmania genetics is placed in the context of natural populations. Various studies have described a clonal structure for Leishmania but recombination, pseudo-recombination and other genetic processes have also been reported. The impact of these different models on epidemiology and the medical aspects of leishmaniases is considered from an evolutionary point of view. The role of these parasites in the expression of pathogenicity in humans is also explored. It is important to ascertain whether genetic variability of the parasites is related to the different clinical expressions of leishmaniasis. The review aims to put current knowledge of Leishmania and the leishmaniases in perspective and to underline priority questions which 'leishmaniacs' must answer in various domains: epidemiology, population genetics, taxonomy and pathogenicity. It concludes by presenting a number of feasible ways of responding to these questions.
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- Anne-Laure Bañuls
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR CNRS/IRD 2724, Génétique et Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses, IRD Montpellier, 911 avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier cedex 5, France
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Genomic filtering is a rapid approach to identifying and prioritizing molecular targets for drug discovery. For infectious disease applications, comparative genomics filters allow the selection of pathogen-specific gene products, whereas functional genomics filters, such as RNA interference (RNAi), allow the selection of gene products essential for pathogen survival. The approach is especially applicable to antiparasitic drug discovery where the phylogenetic distance between parasite and host make the likelihood of drug cross-toxicity due to conservation of molecular targets greater than for more distantly related pathogens such as prokaryotes. This article discusses some of the inherent challenges of applying genomics to the early steps of drug discovery and describes one successful comparative and functional genomics filtering strategy that has been implemented to prioritize molecular targets and identify chemical leads for nematode control.
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- James P McCarter
- Divergence Inc., 893 North Warson Road, St Louis, MO 63141, USA.
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Jung YK, Jeong JH, Ryoo HM, Kim HN, Kim YJ, Park EK, Si HJ, Kim SY, Takigawa M, Lee BH, Park RW, Kim IS, Choi JY. Gene expression profile of human chondrocyte HCS-2/8 cell line by EST sequencing analysis. Gene 2004; 330:85-92. [PMID: 15087127 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2003] [Revised: 12/22/2003] [Accepted: 01/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Large-scale single-pass sequencing of randomly selected cDNA clones from cell type specific libraries has proven to be a powerful approach for the discovery of novel gene functions, identification of novel gene family members, and definition of gene expression profiles. HCS-2/8 chondrocyte has been used as a cell culture model to study chondrocyte differentiation. Here we performed 3350 single-pass sequencing reactions obtained from the 5' ends of cDNAs from HCS-2/8 cells. To define the expression profiles of HCS-2/8 chondrocytes, we analyzed the identity of these representative cDNA sequences using database searches (BLAST). The sequences represent 1927 unique genes with known function (i.e., unigene clusters), 38 transcripts that are similar to genes with known function, 739 expressed genes with unknown function (i.e., expressed sequence tags), and 18 cDNAs which have not previously been sequenced. Interestingly, many transcripts were expressed from chromosome 12 compared with total genes, while the fewer numbers of cDNAs were derived from genes on chromosomes 14, 18 and Y. The chondrocytic phenotype of HCS-2/8 cells is reflected by abundant expression of genes related to cell structure and motility and the 20 most frequently expressed unigenes reflect a chondrocyte-related gene expression signature. Thus, our data establish a representative set of more than 2000 genes expressed in a chondrocytic cell line. This finding provides a framework for understanding cell growth and differentiation of chondrocytes and their metabolic function in the formation and remodeling of cartilage.
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- Youn-Kwan Jung
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 700-422, South Korea
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Nwaka S, Ridley RG. Virtual drug discovery and development for neglected diseases through public-private partnerships. Nat Rev Drug Discov 2004; 2:919-28. [PMID: 14668812 DOI: 10.1038/nrd1230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Miyoshi T, Tsuji N, Islam MK, Kamio T, Fujisaki K. Gene Silencing of a Cubilin-Related Serine Proteinase from the Hard Tick Haemaphysalis longicornis by RNA Interference. J Vet Med Sci 2004; 66:1471-3. [PMID: 15585970 DOI: 10.1292/jvms.66.1471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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RNA interference (RNAi) has been recently exploited to determine gene function by degrading specific mRNAs in several eukaryotic organisms. We constructed a double stranded RNA (dsRNA) from a previously cloned Haemaphysalis longicornis serine proteinase (HlSP) gene to test the importance of the function of the HlSP gene product during blood-feeding. Growth of unfed ticks treated with HlSP dsRNA was significantly inhibited compared to that of PBS-treated ticks. This inhibition was supported by the level of HlSP mRNA. HlSP may play a crucial role for blood-feeding in these ticks. This is the first report on gene silencing of a functional serine proteinase in hard ticks.
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- Takeharu Miyoshi
- National Institute of Animal Health, National Agricultural Research Organization, Ibaraki, Japan
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Doytchinova IA, Taylor P, Flower DR. Proteomics in Vaccinology and Immunobiology: An Informatics Perspective of the Immunone. J Biomed Biotechnol 2003; 2003:267-290. [PMID: 14688414 PMCID: PMC521502 DOI: 10.1155/s1110724303209232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2002] [Accepted: 12/18/2002] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The postgenomic era, as manifest, inter alia, by proteomics, offers unparalleled opportunities for the efficient discovery of safe, efficacious, and novel subunit vaccines targeting a tranche of modern major diseases. A negative corollary of this opportunity is the risk of becoming overwhelmed by this embarrassment of riches. Informatics techniques, working to address issues of both data management and through prediction to shortcut the experimental process, can be of enormous benefit in leveraging the proteomic revolution. In this disquisition, we evaluate proteomic approaches to the discovery of subunit vaccines, focussing on viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasite systems. We also adumbrate the impact that proteomic analysis of host-pathogen interactions can have. Finally, we review relevant methods to the prediction of immunome, with special emphasis on quantitative methods, and the subcellular localization of proteins within bacteria.
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- Irini A Doytchinova
- Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research, High Street, Compton, Berkshire, RG20 7NN, UK
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- Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research, High Street, Compton, Berkshire, RG20 7NN, UK
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- Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research, High Street, Compton, Berkshire, RG20 7NN, UK
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Gaines PJ, Brandt KS, Eisele AM, Wagner WP, Bozic CM, Wisnewski N. Analysis of expressed sequence tags from subtracted and unsubtracted Ctenocephalides felis hindgut and Malpighian tubule cDNA libraries. INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2002; 11:299-306. [PMID: 12144694 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2002.00337.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Insect hindgut and Malpighian tubule (HMT) tissues regulate the contents of the haemolymph through the excretion of waste products and the specific reabsorption of nutrients. As such, they perform a role that is essential for survival and may contain molecular targets for insect control strategies. In order to discover genes expressed in the HMT tissues of the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis, expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were generated from an unsubtracted HMT cDNA library and from a subtracted HMT cDNA library that had been enriched for HMT-specific cDNAs. A total of 4844 ESTs were analysed from both libraries: 3657 from the subtracted library and 1187 from the unsubtracted library. Of the 1418 distinct ESTs identified from both libraries, 953 had significant similarity to other sequences reported in the GenBank database. A comparison of the results from the two libraries confirmed that the percentages of genes likely to be involved with metabolism, cell structure, and digestion were reduced by the subtraction procedure, whereas genes likely to be involved with ion transport were enriched. Analysis of the prevalence of three individual cDNAs in each library revealed that the actin cDNA was reduced in the subtracted library whereas the cDNAs encoding allantoinase and a peritrophin-like protein were greatly enriched in the subtracted library. Northern blot analysis demonstrated that the actin cDNA was expressed in both the HMT and carcass tissues, whereas the allantoinase and peritrophin-like cDNAs were detected exclusively in the HMT tissues. In total, 97 distinct ESTs that appear to encode proteins involved with ion transport were analysed. Some of these proteins may be directly involved with diuresis or the specific reabsorption of salts and nutrients, and thus may be potential molecular targets for flea control strategies.
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- P J Gaines
- Heska Corporation, 1613 Prospect Parkway, Fort Collins, CO 80525, USA.
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The organism about which most is known on a molecular level is a nematode, the free-living organism Caenorhabditis elegans. This organism has served as a reasonable model for the discovery of anthelmintic drugs and for research on the mechanism of action of anthelmintics. Useful information on mechanisms of anthelmintic resistance has also been obtained from studies on C. elegans. Unfortunately, there has not been a large-scale extension of genetic techniques developed in C. elegans to research on parasitic species of veterinary (or human) parasites. Much can be learned about the essentials of nematode biology by studying C. elegans, but discovering the basic biology of nematode parasitism can only be gained through comparative studies on multiple parasitic species.
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- T G Geary
- Discovery Research, Pharmacia Animal Health, 7923-25-111, 7000 Portage Road, Kalamazoo, MI 49001-0199, USA.
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Lecompte O, Thompson JD, Plewniak F, Thierry J, Poch O. Multiple alignment of complete sequences (MACS) in the post-genomic era. Gene 2001; 270:17-30. [PMID: 11403999 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(01)00461-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Multiple alignment, since its introduction in the early seventies, has become a cornerstone of modern molecular biology. It has traditionally been used to deduce structure / function by homology, to detect conserved motifs and in phylogenetic studies. There has recently been some renewed interest in the development of multiple alignment techniques, with current opinion moving away from a single all-encompassing algorithm to iterative and / or co-operative strategies. The exploitation of multiple alignments in genome annotation projects represents a qualitative leap in the functional analysis process, opening the way to the study of the co-evolution of validated sets of proteins and to reliable phylogenomic analysis. However, the alignment of the highly complex proteins detected by today's advanced database search methods is a daunting task. In addition, with the explosion of the sequence databases and with the establishment of numerous specialized biological databases, multiple alignment programs must evolve if they are to successfully rise to the new challenges of the post-genomic era. The way forward is clearly an integrated system bringing together sequence data, knowledge-based systems and prediction methods with their inherent unreliability. The incorporation of such heterogeneous, often non-consistent, data will require major changes to the fundamental alignment algorithms used to date. Such an integrated multiple alignment system will provide an ideal workbench for the validation, propagation and presentation of this information in a format that is concise, clear and intuitive.
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- O Lecompte
- Laboratoire de Biologie et Génomique Structurales, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (CNRS/INSERM/ULP), BP 163, 67404 Cedex, Illkirch, France
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Tawe W, Hashmi S, Lustigman S. Identification of filarial vaccine and drug target candidates by EST analysis. Trends Parasitol 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s1471-4922(00)01875-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Proteomics offers a new set of tools for investigating parasites and parasite-associated disease. In this article, John Barrett, Jim Jefferies and Peter Brophy describe the key technologies involved, including two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, image analysis, biological mass spectroscopy and database searching. The potential applications of proteomics in drug and vaccine discovery are reviewed, as are possible future developments.
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- J Barrett
- Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK SY23 3DA.
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Current awareness on comparative and functional genomics. Yeast 2000; 17:339-46. [PMID: 11119313 PMCID: PMC2448380 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0061(200012)17:4<339::aid-yea10>3.0.co;2-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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