A spatiotemporally resolved single-cell atlas of the Plasmodium liver stage

A Afriat, V Zuzarte-Luís, K Bahar Halpern, L Buchauer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Malaria infection involves an obligatory, yet clinically silent liver stage,. Hepatocytes operate
in repeating units termed lobules, exhibiting heterogeneous gene expression patterns along …

The Malaria Cell Atlas: Single parasite transcriptomes across the complete Plasmodium life cycle

VM Howick, AJC Russell, T Andrews, H Heaton… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Plasmodium parasites, the causative agent of malaria, are single-celled
organisms with distinct morphological developmental stages each specialized to inhabit …

Quantitative imaging of Plasmodium transmission from mosquito to mammal

R Amino, S Thiberge, B Martin, S Celli, S Shorte… - Nature medicine, 2006 - nature.com
Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria, is transmitted by a mosquito into the dermis
and must reach the liver before infecting erythrocytes and causing disease. We present here …

Host cell transcriptional profiling during malaria liver stage infection reveals a coordinated and sequential set of biological events

SS Albuquerque, C Carret, AR Grosso, AS Tarun… - BMC genomics, 2009 - Springer
Background Plasmodium sporozoites migrate to the liver where they traverse several
hepatocytes before invading the one inside which they will develop and multiply into …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals hidden transcriptional variation in malaria parasites

AJ Reid, AM Talman, HM Bennett, AR Gomes… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Single-cell RNA-sequencing is revolutionising our understanding of seemingly
homogeneous cell populations but has not yet been widely applied to single-celled …

RNA-Seq Analysis Illuminates the Early Stages of Plasmodium Liver Infection

M Toro-Moreno, K Sylvester, T Srivastava, D Posfai… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The apicomplexan parasites Plasmodium spp. are the causative agents of malaria, a
disease that poses a significant global health burden. Plasmodium spp. initiate infection of …

Transcriptome analysis of Plasmodium berghei during exo-erythrocytic development

R Caldelari, S Dogga, MW Schmid, B Franke-Fayard… - Malaria journal, 2019 - Springer
Background The complex life cycle of malaria parasites requires well-orchestrated stage
specific gene expression. In the vertebrate host the parasites grow and multiply by …

Plasmodium malariae and P. ovale genomes provide insights into malaria parasite evolution

GG Rutledge, U Böhme, M Sanders, AJ Reid… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Elucidation of the evolutionary history and interrelatedness of Plasmodium species that
infect humans has been hampered by a lack of genetic information for three human-infective …

The crucial role of hepatocyte growth factor receptor during liver-stage infection is not conserved among Plasmodium species

A Kaushansky, SHI Kappe - Nature medicine, 2011 - nature.com
Protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodiumare the vector-borne causative agents of
malaria, responsible for more than 350 million clinical cases and one million deaths …

Migration through host cells activates Plasmodium sporozoites for infection

MM Mota, JCR Hafalla, A Rodriguez - Nature medicine, 2002 - nature.com
Plasmodium sporozoites, the infective stage of the malaria parasite transmitted by
mosquitoes, migrate through several hepatocytes before infecting a final one. Migration …