Nucleic acid transfection and transgenesis in parasitic nematodes

Development of the piggyBac transposable system for Plasmodium berghei and its application for random mutagenesis in malaria parasites

(2011) Jannik Fonager et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Schistosoma mansoni U6 gene promoter-driven short hairpin RNA induces RNA interference in human fibrosarcoma cells and schistosomules

(2011) Mary A. Ayuk et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Transgenesis in the parasitic nematode Strongyloides ratti

(2011) Xinshe Li et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

RNAi Effector Diversity in Nematodes

(2011) Johnathan J. Dalzell et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Vector-based RNA interference of cathepsin B1 in Schistosoma mansoni

(2010) Elissaveta B. Tchoubrieva et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Role of the NF-κB transcription factor c-Rel in the generation of CD8+ T-cell responses to Toxoplasma gondii

(2010) Kimberly A. Jordan et al.   INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY

In vivo transfection of developmentally competent Brugia malayi infective larvae

(2010) Shulin Xu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Factors affecting susceptibility to RNA interference in Haemonchus contortus and in vivo silencing of an H11 aminopeptidase gene

(2010) Buddhini Samarasinghe et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Virulence of Toxoplasma gondii Is Associated with Distinct Dendritic Cell Responses and Reduced Numbers of Activated CD8+ T Cells

(2010) E. D. Tait et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Transduction of Schistosoma japonicum schistosomules with vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein pseudotyped murine leukemia retrovirus and expression of reporter human telomerase reverse transcriptase in the transgenic schistosomes

(2010) Shenghui Yang et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

The role of polymorphisms in the spliced leader addition domain in determining promoter activity in Brugia malayi

(2010) Michelle Bailey et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

Innate immune cell populations function as initiators and effectors in Th2 cytokine responses

(2010) Steven A. Saenz et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Molecular Evidence for a Functional Ecdysone Signaling System in Brugia malayi

(2010) George Tzertzinis et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Development of an In Vivo RNAi Protocol to Investigate Gene Function in the Filarial Nematode, Brugia malayi

(2010) Chuanzhe Song et al.   PLoS Pathogens

piggyBac is an effective tool for functional analysis of the Plasmodium falciparum genome

(2009) Bharath Balu et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular cloning of a dominant roller mutant and establishment of DNA-mediated transformation in the nematodePristionchus pacificus

(2009) Benjamin Schlager et al.   GENESIS

Kinetics and Phenotype of Vaccine-Induced CD8+ T-Cell Responses to Toxoplasma gondii

(2009) K. A. Jordan et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Functional analysis of putative operons in Brugia malayi

(2009) Canhui Liu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Regulation of pathogenesis and immunity in helminth infections

(2009) Rick M. Maizels et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

Optimization of the PiggyBac Transposon System for the Sustained Genetic Modification of Human T Lymphocytes

(2009) Yozo Nakazawa et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOTHERAPY

The splice leader addition domain represents an essential conserved motif for heterologous gene expression in B. malayi

(2009) Canhui Liu et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

The role of local secondary structure in the function of the trans-splicing motif of Brugia malayi

(2009) Canhui Liu et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

Transgenesis in parasitic nematodes: building a better array

(2009) James B. Lok   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Functional Analysis of the Cathepsin-Like Cysteine Protease Genes in Adult Brugia malayi Using RNA Interference

(2009) Louise Ford et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Morphogenesis of Strongyloides stercoralis Infective Larvae Requires the DAF-16 Ortholog FKTF-1

(2009) Michelle L. Castelletto et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Schistosoma japonicum: Inhibition of Mago nashi gene expression by shRNA-mediated RNA interference

(2008) Zhi-rong Zhao et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Integration of reporter transgenes into Schistosoma mansoni chromosomes mediated by pseudotyped murine leukemia virus

(2008) Kristine J. Kines et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Characterization of the promoter of the Brugia malayi 12kDa small subunit ribosomal protein (RPS12) gene

(2008) Ana de Oliveira et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Organellar dynamics during the cell cycle of Toxoplasma gondii

(2008) M. Nishi et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Exploiting position effects and the gypsy retrovirus insulator to engineer precisely expressed transgenes

(2008) Michele Markstein et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Long intronic GAA•TTC repeats induce epigenetic changes and reporter gene silencing in a molecular model of Friedreich ataxia

(2008) E. Soragni et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Transgenesis and neuronal ablation in parasitic nematodes: revolutionary new tools to dissect host–parasite interactions

(2008) J. B. LOK et al.   PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY

Strongyloides stercoralis: Cell- and tissue-specific transgene expression and co-transformation with vector constructs incorporating a common multifunctional 3′ UTR

(2007) Ariel B. Junio et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY