Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools

C Schäfer, G Zanghi, AM Vaughan… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Plasmodium vivax is the most widespread human malaria parasite, in part because it can
form latent liver stages known as hypnozoites after transmission by female anopheline …

Are physiological oscillations physiological?

L Xiong, A Garfinkel - The Journal of Physiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite widespread and striking examples of physiological oscillations, their functional role
is often unclear. Even glycolysis, the paradigm example of oscillatory biochemistry, has seen …

Extracellular vesicles could be a putative posttranscriptional regulatory mechanism that shapes intracellular RNA levels in Plasmodium falciparum

M Kioko, A Pance, S Mwangi, D Goulding… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum secretes extracellular vesicles (Pf EVs) that contain parasite-derived
RNA. However, the significance of the secreted RNA remains unexplored. Here, we …

The malaria parasite has an intrinsic clock

F Rijo-Ferreira, VA Acosta-Rodriguez, JH Abel… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Malarial rhythmic fevers are the consequence of the synchronous bursting of red blood cells
(RBCs) on completion of the malaria parasite asexual cell cycle. Here, we hypothesized that …

Autonomous clocks that regulate organelle biogenesis, cytoskeletal organization, and intracellular dynamics

M Mofatteh, F Echegaray-Iturra, A Alamban… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
How do cells perceive time? Do cells use temporal information to regulate the production/
degradation of their enzymes, membranes, and organelles? Does controlling biological time …

Laser-induced surface acoustic wave sensing-based malaria parasite detection and analysis

W Wang, Z Zheng, C Yang, Z Fang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malaria parasite-Plasmodium falciparum infection is a severe healthcare problem in tropical
and subtropical regions. Early detection of such disease is vital in reducing mortality and …

A Plasmodium falciparum MORC protein complex modulates epigenetic control of gene expression through interaction with heterochromatin

MK Singh, VA Bonnell, IT Da Silva, VF Santiago… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Dynamic control of gene expression is critical for blood stage development of malaria
parasites. Here, we used multi-omic analyses to investigate transcriptional regulation by the …

A comprehensive rhythmicity analysis of host proteins and immune factors involved in malaria pathogenesis to decipher the importance of host circadian clock in …

S Rankawat, K Kundal, S Chakraborty… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Circadian rhythms broadly impact human health by regulating our daily
physiological and metabolic processes. The circadian clocks substantially regulate our …

How many is enough?-Challenges of multinucleated cell division in malaria parasites

CS Simon, VS Stürmer, J Guizetti - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Regulating the number of progeny generated by replicative cell cycles is critical for any
organism to best adapt to its environment. Classically, the decision whether to divide further …

Daily rhythms in gene expression of the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni

KA Rawlinson, AJ Reid, Z Lu, P Driguez, A Wawer… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background The consequences of the earth's daily rotation have led to 24-h biological
rhythms in most organisms. Even some parasites are known to have daily rhythms, which …