Immunity to Cryptosporidium: insights into principles of enteric responses to infection

RD Pardy, BA Wallbank, B Striepen… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Cryptosporidium parasites replicate within intestinal epithelial cells and are an important
cause of diarrhoeal disease in young children and in patients with primary and acquired …

Expansion microscopy of apicomplexan parasites

B Liffner, S Absalon - Molecular Microbiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Apicomplexan parasites comprise significant pathogens of humans, livestock and wildlife,
but also represent a diverse group of eukaryotes with interesting and unique cell biology …

Genetic crosses within and between species of Cryptosporidium

S Shaw, IS Cohn, RP Baptista, G Xia… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Parasites and their hosts are engaged in reciprocal coevolution that balances competing
mechanisms of virulence, resistance, and evasion. This often leads to host specificity, but …

[HTML][HTML] Dendritic cell-mediated responses to secreted Cryptosporidium effectors promote parasite-specific CD8+ T cell responses

BE Haskins, JA Gullicksrud, BA Wallbank… - Mucosal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cryptosporidium causes debilitating diarrheal disease in patients with primary and acquired
defects in T cell function. However, it has been a challenge to understand how this infection …

Transcriptional control of the Cryptosporidium life cycle

KA Walzer, J Tandel, JH Byerly, AM Daniels… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The parasite Cryptosporidium is a leading agent of diarrhoeal disease in young children,
and a cause and consequence of chronic malnutrition,. There are no vaccines and only …

Variant surface protein GP60 contributes to host infectivity of Cryptosporidium parvum

M Li, F Yang, T Hou, X Gong, N Li, LD Sibley… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Biological studies of the determinants of Cryptosporidium infectivity are lacking despite the
fact that cryptosporidiosis is a major public health problem. Recently, the 60-kDa …

Adaptations and metabolic evolution of myzozoan protists across diverse lifestyles and environments

RF Waller, VB Carruthers - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Myzozoans encompass apicomplexans and dinoflagellates that manifest diverse lifestyles in
highly varied environments. They show enormous propensity to employ different metabolic …

Genetic ablation of a female-specific apetala 2 transcription factor blocks oocyst shedding in Cryptosporidium parvum

J Tandel, KA Walzer, JH Byerly, B Pinkston, DP Beiting… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The apicomplexan parasite Cryptosporidium is a leading global cause of diarrheal disease,
and the infection poses a particularly grave threat to young children and those with …

Cultivation, cryopreservation, and transcriptomic studies of host-adapted Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis using enteroids

M Deng, T Hou, J Zhang, X Mao, F Yang, Y Wei… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Cryptosporidium hominis and Cryptosporidium parvum are major causes of severe diarrhea.
Comparative studies of them are hampered by the lack of effective cultivation and …

Cryptosporidium impacts epithelial turnover and is resistant to induced death of the host cell

BA Wallbank, RD Pardy, IE Brodsky, CA Hunter… - Mbio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Infection with the apicomplexan parasite Cryptosporidium is a leading cause of diarrheal
disease. Cryptosporidiosis is of particular importance in infants and shows a strong …