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
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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
A Plasmodium berghei sporozoite-based vaccination platform against human malaria.
Mendes AM, Machado M, Gonçalves-Rosa N, Reuling IJ, Foquet L, Marques C, Salman AM, Yang ASP, Moser KA, Dwivedi A, Hermsen CC, Jiménez-Díaz B, Viera S, Santos JM, Albuquerque I, Bhatia SN, Bial J, Angulo-Barturen I, Silva JC, Leroux-Roels G, Janse CJ, Khan SM, Mota MM, Sauerwein RW, Prudêncio M.
NPJ Vaccines. 2018. 3:33. PMID: 30155278
Parasite Sensing of Host Nutrients and Environmental Cues.
Zuzarte-Luís V, Mota MM.
2018 06 13. 23(6):749-758. PMID: 29902440
Fighting for Resources: Who Started the Battle? Who Is Winning It?
Zuzarte-Luis V, Mota MM.
Cell Metab. 2018 04 03. 27(4):708-709. PMID: 29617637
Plasmodium UIS3 sequesters host LC3 to avoid elimination by autophagy in hepatocytes.
Real E, Rodrigues L, Cabal GG, Enguita FJ, Mancio-Silva L, Mello-Vieira J, Beatty W, Vera IM, Zuzarte-Luís V, Figueira TN, Mair GR, Mota MM.
Nat Microbiol. 2018 Jan. 3(1):17-25. PMID: 29109477
Dietary alterations modulate susceptibility to Plasmodium infection.
Zuzarte-Luís V, Mello-Vieira J, Marreiros IM, Liehl P, Chora ÂF, Carret CK, Carvalho T, Mota MM.
Nat Microbiol. 2017 Dec. 2(12):1600-1607. PMID: 28947801