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    Quantification of sporozoite expelling by Anopheles mosquitoes infected with laboratory and naturally circulating P. falciparum gametocytes

    Chiara Andolina, Wouter Graumans ... Teun Bousema
    The number of sporozoites expelled by mosquitoes that are infected with lab-cultured or naturally circulating Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes is heterogeneous and associated with the sporozoite load in their salivary glands.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Purine nucleosides replace cAMP in allosteric regulation of PKA in trypanosomatid pathogens

    Veronica Teresa Ober, George Boniface Githure ... Michael Boshart
    A minimal subset of two to three residues in cyclic nucleotide binding (CNB) domains controls nucleoside vs. cyclic nucleotide specificity, repurposing PKA of certain pathogens for novel nucleoside signaling pathways or sensing.
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    Targeting host deoxycytidine kinase mitigates Staphylococcus aureus abscess formation

    Volker Winstel, Evan R Abt ... Caius G Radu
    Host-directed therapy neutralizes a refined immuno-evasive maneuver of pathogenic staphylococci.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Potassium-mediated bacterial chemotactic response

    Chi Zhang, Rongjing Zhang, Junhua Yuan
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    The Toxoplasma monocarboxylate transporters are involved in the metabolism within the apicoplast and are linked to parasite survival

    Hui Dong, Jiong Yang ... Shaojun Long
    Combined cutting-edge technologies discovered a pair of carboxylate transporters that appears evolutionarily different among novel transporters and that is essential for parasite physiology.
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    Small RNAs from mitochondrial genome recombination sites are incorporated into T. gondii mitoribosomes

    Sabrina Tetzlaff, Arne Hillebrand ... Christian Schmitz-Linneweber
    Sequences at mitochondrial genome recombination sites are dually used as mRNAs and as rRNAs in actively translating mitoribosomes of T. gondii.