Moonlighting proteins as virulence factors of pathogenic fungi, parasitic protozoa and multicellular parasites

Fungal invasion of epithelial cells

(2014) Weiming Yang et al.   MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Extracellular functions of glycolytic enzymes of parasites: Unpredicted use of ancient proteins

(2014) Amaranta Gómez-Arreaza et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

Candida albicans Uses the Surface Protein Gpm1 to Attach to Human Endothelial Cells and to Keratinocytes via the Adhesive Protein Vitronectin

(2014) Crisanto M. Lopez et al.   PLoS One

Parasitism in optima forma: Exploiting the host fibrinolytic system for invasion

(2013) Lourdes Figuera et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Comparative analysis of Leishmania exoproteomes: Implication for host–pathogen interactions

(2013) Franck Peysselon et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS

MultitaskProtDB: a database of multitasking proteins

(2013) Sergio Hernández et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase of the parasitic nematodeHaemonchus contortusbinds to complement C3 and inhibits its activity

(2013) S. Sahoo et al.   PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY

Surface associated antigens of Dirofilaria immitis adult worms activate the host fibrinolytic system

(2013) Javier González-Miguel et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Interference with the Host Haemostatic System by Schistosomes

(2013) Mirjam M. Mebius et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Surface-expressed enolase contributes to the adhesion of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis to host cells

(2012) Caroline Maria Marcos et al.   FEMS YEAST RESEARCH

Cell Surface Remodeling by Plasmin: A New Function for an Old Enzyme

(2012) Elena I. Deryugina et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICINE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Glycerol-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase 2 Is a Novel Factor H–, Factor H–like Protein 1–, and Plasminogen-Binding Surface Protein of Candida albicans

(2012) Shanshan Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Cell surface shaving of Candida albicans biofilms, hyphae, and yeast form cells

(2012) Vital Vialás et al.   PROTEOMICS

Bacterial Virulence in the Moonlight: Multitasking Bacterial Moonlighting Proteins Are Virulence Determinants in Infectious Disease

(2011) Brian Henderson et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Candida albicans Hgt1p, a Multifunctional Evasion Molecule: Complement Inhibitor, CR3 Analogue, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Binding Molecule

(2011) Iwona Lesiak-Markowicz et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Surface-expressed enolases of Plasmodium and other pathogens

(2011) Anil Kumar Ghosh et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

Unravelling Secretion in Cryptococcus neoformans: More than One Way to Skin a Cat

(2011) Marcio L. Rodrigues et al.   MYCOPATHOLOGIA

Molecular determinants of the interaction between human high molecular weight kininogen and Candida albicans cell wall: Identification of kininogen-binding proteins on fungal cell wall and mapping the cell wall-binding regions on kininogen molecule

(2011) Justyna Karkowska-Kuleta et al.   PEPTIDES

The Unconventional Secretory Machinery of Fibroblast Growth Factor 2

(2011) Walter Nickel   TRAFFIC

Molecular and functional characterization of a Schistosoma bovis annexin: Fibrinolytic and anticoagulant activity

(2011) Eduardo de la Torre-Escudero et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

The Paracoccidioides Cell Wall: Past and Present Layers Toward Understanding Interaction with the Host

(2011) Rosana Puccia et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Identification of Candida albicans exposed surface proteins in vivo by a rapid proteomic approach

(2010) María Luisa Hernáez et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Vitronectin in bacterial pathogenesis: a host protein used in complement escape and cellular invasion

(2010) Birendra Singh et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Moonlighting enzymes in parasitic protozoa

(2010) PETER W. COLLINGRIDGE et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Host Cell Invasion and Virulence Mediated by Candida albicans Ssa1

(2010) Jianing N. Sun et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Binding and activation of the human plasma kinin-forming system on the cell walls of Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis

(2009) Justyna Karkowska-Kuleta et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The malate synthase of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is a linked surface protein that behaves as an anchorless adhesin

(2009) Benedito da Silva Neto et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Is a Surface-Associated, Fibronectin-Binding Protein of Trichomonas vaginalis

(2009) A. Lama et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Enolase from Paracoccidioides brasiliensis: isolation and identification as a fibronectin-binding protein

(2009) F. C. Donofrio et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Plasmodium falciparum enolase: stage-specific expression and sub-cellular localization

(2009) Ipsita Pal Bhowmick et al.   MALARIA JOURNAL

Immune evasion of the human pathogenic yeast Candida albicans: Pra1 is a Factor H, FHL-1 and plasminogen binding surface protein

(2009) Shanshan Luo et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Mechanisms of regulated unconventional protein secretion

(2009) Walter Nickel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Surface-Associated Plasminogen Binding of Cryptococcus neoformans Promotes Extracellular Matrix Invasion

(2009) Jamal Stie et al.   PLoS One

The Plasmodium TRAP/MIC2 family member, TRAP-Like Protein (TLP), is involved in tissue traversal by sporozoites

(2008) Cristina K. Moreira et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Uptake of the antifungal cationic peptide Histatin 5 byCandida albicansSsa2p requires binding to non-conventional sites within the ATPase domain

(2008) Jianing N. Sun et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY