Epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of cerebral toxoplasmosis

HM Elsheikha, CM Marra, XQ Zhu - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Toxoplasma gondii is known to infect a considerable number of mammalian and avian
species and a substantial proportion of the world's human population. The parasite has an …

CRISPR-Cas9 system: A new-fangled dawn in gene editing

D Gupta, O Bhattacharjee, D Mandal, MK Sen, D Dey… - Life sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Till date, only three techniques namely Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN), Transcription-Activator
Like Effector Nucleases (TALEN) and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic …

Dendrimer-RNA nanoparticles generate protective immunity against lethal Ebola, H1N1 influenza, and Toxoplasma gondii challenges with a single dose

JS Chahal, OF Khan, CL Cooper… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Vaccines have had broad medical impact, but existing vaccine technologies and production
methods are limited in their ability to respond rapidly to evolving and emerging pathogens …

[HTML][HTML] A genome-wide CRISPR screen in Toxoplasma identifies essential apicomplexan genes

SM Sidik, D Huet, SM Ganesan, MH Huynh, T Wang… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Apicomplexan parasites are leading causes of human and livestock diseases such as
malaria and toxoplasmosis, yet most of their genes remain uncharacterized. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Origins of programmable nucleases for genome engineering

S Chandrasegaran, D Carroll - Journal of molecular biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Genome engineering with programmable nucleases depends on cellular responses to a
targeted double-strand break (DSB). The first truly targetable reagents were the zinc finger …

Identification of a master regulator of differentiation in Toxoplasma

BS Waldman, D Schwarz, MH Wadsworth, JP Saeij… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Toxoplasma gondii chronically infects a quarter of the world's population, and its
recrudescence can cause life-threatening disease in immunocompromised individuals and …

Genetic modification of the diarrhoeal pathogen Cryptosporidium parvum

S Vinayak, MC Pawlowic, A Sateriale, CF Brooks… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Recent studies into the global causes of severe diarrhoea in young children have identified
the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium as the second most important diarrhoeal pathogen …

EuPaGDT: a web tool tailored to design CRISPR guide RNAs for eukaryotic pathogens

D Peng, R Tarleton - Microbial genomics, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
Recent development of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing has enabled highly efficient and
versatile manipulation of a variety of organisms and adaptation of the CRISPR-Cas9 system …

[HTML][HTML] The Toxoplasma dense granule proteins GRA17 and GRA23 mediate the movement of small molecules between the host and the parasitophorous vacuole

DA Gold, AD Kaplan, A Lis, GCL Bett, EE Rosowski… - Cell host & …, 2015 - cell.com
Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan pathogen in the phylum Apicomplexa that resides within
an intracellular parasitophorous vacuole (PV) that is selectively permeable to small …

Plasma Membrane Association by N-Acylation Governs PKG Function in Toxoplasma gondii

KM Brown, S Long, LD Sibley - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cyclic GMP (cGMP)-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase G [PKG]) is essential for
microneme secretion, motility, invasion, and egress in apicomplexan parasites, However …