Kristen Skillman

Epigenetic Variation and Regulation in Malaria Parasites.

Duraisingh MT, Skillman KM.

Annu Rev Microbiol. 2018 Sep 08. 72:355-375. PMID: 29927705

Demographic and clinical profiles of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax patients at a tertiary care centre in southwestern India.

Chery L, Maki JN, Mascarenhas A, Walke JT, Gawas P, Almeida A, Fernandes M, Vaz M, Ramanan R, Shirodkar D, Bernabeu M, Manoharan SK, Pereira L, Dash R, Sharma A, Shaik RB, Chakrabarti R, Babar P, White J, Mudeppa DG, Kumar S, Zuo W, Skillman KM, Kanjee U, Lim C, Shaw-Saliba K, Kumar A, Valecha N, Jindal VN, Khandeparkar A, Naik P, Amonkar S, Duraisingh MT, Tuljapurkar S, Smith JD, Dubhashi N, Pinto RG, Silveria M, Gomes E, Rathod PK.

Malar J. 2016 11 25. 15(1):569. PMID: 27884146

Functional analysis of sirtuin genes in multiple Plasmodium falciparum strains.

Merrick CJ, Jiang RH, Skillman KM, Samarakoon U, Moore RM, Dzikowski R, Ferdig MT, Duraisingh MT.

PLoS One. 2015. 10(3):e0118865. PMID: 25780929

A Plasmodium falciparum histone deacetylase regulates antigenic variation and gametocyte conversion.

Coleman BI, Skillman KM, Jiang RHY, Childs LM, Altenhofen LM, Ganter M, Leung Y, Goldowitz I, Kafsack BFC, Marti M, Llinás M, Buckee CO, Duraisingh MT.

Cell Host Microbe. 2014 Aug 13. 16(2):177-186. PMID: 25121747

The unusual dynamics of parasite actin result from isodesmic polymerization.

Skillman KM, Ma CI, Fremont DH, Diraviyam K, Cooper JA, Sept D, Sibley LD.

Nat Commun. 2013. 4:2285. PMID: 23921463

Toxoplasma gondii profilin acts primarily to sequester G-actin while formins efficiently nucleate actin filament formation in vitro.

Skillman KM, Daher W, Ma CI, Soldati-Favre D, Sibley LD.

Biochemistry. 2012 Mar 27. 51(12):2486-95. PMID: 22397711

Evolutionarily divergent, unstable filamentous actin is essential for gliding motility in apicomplexan parasites.

Skillman KM, Diraviyam K, Khan A, Tang K, Sept D, Sibley LD.

PLoS Pathog. 2011 Oct. 7(10):e1002280. PMID: 21998582

Incorporation of a polypeptide segment into the beta-domain pore during the assembly of a bacterial autotransporter.

Ieva R, Skillman KM, Bernstein HD.

Mol Microbiol. 2008 Jan. 67(1):188-201. PMID: 18047580

Efficient secretion of a folded protein domain by a monomeric bacterial autotransporter.

Skillman KM, Barnard TJ, Peterson JH, Ghirlando R, Bernstein HD.

Mol Microbiol. 2005 Nov. 58(4):945-58. PMID: 16262782

An unusual signal peptide facilitates late steps in the biogenesis of a bacterial autotransporter.

Szabady RL, Peterson JH, Skillman KM, Bernstein HD.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Jan 04. 102(1):221-6. PMID: 15615856