A Small Molecule Glycosaminoglycan Mimetic Blocks Plasmodium Invasion of the Mosquito Midgut

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Mathias, Derrick K ^a   Pastrana Mena, Rebecca ^a   Ranucci, Elisabetta ^b   Tao, Dingyin ^a   Ferruti, Paolo ^b   Ortega, Corrie ^a   Staples, Gregory O ^c   Zaia, Joseph ^c   Takashima, Eizo ^d   Tsuboi, Takafumi ^d   Borg, Natalie A ^e   Verotta, Luisella ^b   Dinglasan, Rhoel R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; POLYMER; THROMBOSPONDIN; THROMBOSPONDIN RELATED ANONYMOUS PROTEIN RELATED PROTEIN; TRAP RELATED PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR A DOMAIN RELATED PROTEIN; VS 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALARIA; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDGUT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REACTION TIME; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; OOCYSTS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84888273194     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003757     Document Type: Article

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