Maria Mota

Host lung microbiota promotes malaria-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Mukherjee D, Chora ÂF, Lone JC, Ramiro RS, Blankenhaus B, Serre K, Ramirez M, Gordo I, Veldhoen M, Varga-Weisz P, Mota MM.

Nat Commun. 2022 06 29. 13(1):3747. PMID: 35768411

Active APPL1 sequestration by Plasmodium favors liver-stage development.

Lahree A, Baptista SJS, Marques S, Perschin V, Zuzarte-Luís V, Goel M, Choudhary HH, Mishra S, Stigloher C, Zerial M, Sundaramurthy V, Mota MM.

Cell Rep. 2022 05 31. 39(9):110886. PMID: 35649358

The reciprocal influence of the liver and blood stages of the malaria parasite's life cycle.

Chora ÂF, Mota MM, Prudêncio M.

Int J Parasitol. 2022 Mar 30. PMID: 35367213

Disrupting Plasmodium UIS3-host LC3 interaction with a small molecule causes parasite elimination from host cells.

Setua S, Enguita FJ, Chora ÂF, Ranga-Prasad H, Lahree A, Marques S, Sundaramurthy V, Mota MM.

Commun Biol. 2020 11 19. 3(1):688. PMID: 33214643

Plasmodium translocon component EXP2 facilitates hepatocyte invasion.

Mello-Vieira J, Enguita FJ, de Koning-Ward TF, Zuzarte-Luís V, Mota MM.

Nat Commun. 2020 11 06. 11(1):5654. PMID: 33159090

A Novel Chemically Differentiated Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell-Based Model to Study Liver Stages of Plasmodium berghei.

Tripathi J, Segeritz CP, Griffiths G, Bushell W, Vallier L, Skarnes WC, Mota MM, Billker O.

Stem Cell Reports. 2020 06 09. 14(6):1123-1134. PMID: 32442532

Targeting liver stage malaria with metformin.

Vera IM, Grilo Ruivo MT, Lemos Rocha LF, Marques S, Bhatia SN, Mota MM, Mancio-Silva L.

JCI Insight. 2019 12 19. 4(24). PMID: 31852843

Microbiota, a Third Player in the Host-Plasmodium Affair.

Mukherjee D, Chora ÂF, Mota MM.

Trends Parasitol. 2020 01. 36(1):11-18. PMID: 31787522

?d-T cells promote IFN-?-dependent Plasmodium pathogenesis upon liver-stage infection.

Ribot JC, Neres R, Zuzarte-Luís V, Gomes AQ, Mancio-Silva L, Mensurado S, Pinto-Neves D, Santos MM, Carvalho T, Landry JJM, Rolo EA, Malik A, Silva DV, Mota MM, Silva-Santos B, Pamplona A.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 05 14. 116(20):9979-9988. PMID: 31028144

Plasmodium falciparum subtilisin-like ookinete protein SOPT plays an important and conserved role during ookinete infection of the Anopheles stephensi midgut.

Armistead JS, Jennison C, O'Neill MT, Lopaticki S, Liehl P, Hanson KK, Annoura T, Rajasekaran P, Erickson SM, Tonkin CJ, Khan SM, Mota MM, Boddey JA.

Mol Microbiol. 2018 08. 109(4):458-473. PMID: 29873127