Immune responses in leishmaniasis: an overview

AC Costa-da-Silva, DO Nascimento… - Tropical medicine and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic, widespread, and neglected disease that affects more than 90
countries in the world. More than 20 Leishmania species cause different forms of …

Regulation of gene expression in trypanosomatids: living with polycistronic transcription

C Clayton - Open biology, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In trypanosomes, RNA polymerase II transcription is polycistronic and individual mRNAs are
excised by trans-splicing and polyadenylation. The lack of individual gene transcription …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophages as host, effector and immunoregulatory cells in leishmaniasis: Impact of tissue micro-environment and metabolism

C Bogdan - Cytokine: X, 2020 - Elsevier
Leishmania are protozoan parasites that predominantly reside in myeloid cells within their
mammalian hosts. Monocytes and macrophages play a central role in the pathogenesis of …

Gene expression in Kinetoplastids

CE Clayton - Current opinion in microbiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Kinetoplastids do not control transcription of individual protein-coding
genes.•mRNAs are made from polycistronic precursors by trans splicing and …

Stress conditions promote Leishmania hybridization in vitro marked by expression of the ancestral gamete fusogen HAP2 as revealed by single-cell RNA-seq

I Louradour, TR Ferreira, E Duge, N Karunaweera… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Leishmania are protozoan parasites transmitted by the bite of sand fly vectors producing a
wide spectrum of diseases in their mammalian hosts. These diverse clinical outcomes are …

The Transcriptome of Leishmania major Developmental Stages in Their Natural Sand Fly Vector

E Inbar, VK Hughitt, LAL Dillon, K Ghosh, NM El-Sayed… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The life cycle of the Leishmania parasite in the sand fly vector involves differentiation into
several distinctive forms, each thought to represent an adaptation to specific …

Simultaneous transcriptional profiling of Leishmania major and its murine macrophage host cell reveals insights into host-pathogen interactions

LAL Dillon, R Suresh, K Okrah, H Corrada Bravo… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Parasites of the genus Leishmania are the causative agents of leishmaniasis, a
group of diseases that range in manifestations from skin lesions to fatal visceral disease …

Virulence factors of Leishmania parasite: Their paramount importance in unraveling novel vaccine candidates and therapeutic targets

D Kumari, S Mahajan, P Kour, K Singh - Life sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease and remains a global concern for healthcare.
It is caused by an opportunistic protozoan parasite belonging to the genus Leishmania and …

Dual Transcriptome Profiling of Leishmania-Infected Human Macrophages Reveals Distinct Reprogramming Signatures

MC Fernandes, LAL Dillon, AT Belew, HC Bravo… - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Macrophages are mononuclear phagocytes that constitute a first line of defense against
pathogens. While lethal to many microbes, they are the primary host cells of Leishmania …

Function of macrophage and parasite phosphatases in leishmaniasis

D Soulat, C Bogdan - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The kinetoplastid protozoan parasites belonging to the genus Leishmania are the causative
agents of different clinical forms of leishmaniasis, a vector-borne infectious disease with …