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Do Rosário VE

Pyruvate kinase deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa: identification of a highly frequent missense mutation (G829A;Glu277Lys) and association with malaria.

  • Autores: Amorim A, Arez AP, Cano J, Chibute S, Do Rosário VE, Fernandes N, Gomes C, Langa J, Machado P, Manco L, Mendes C, Miranda J, Pinto J, Ribeiro L, Salomé G, Sitoe L
  • Ano de Publicação: 2012
  • Journal: PLoS One
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Pyruvate+Kinase+Deficiency+in+Sub-Saharan+Africa%3A+Identification+of+a+Highly+Frequent+Missense+Mutation+(G829A%3B+Glu277Lys)+and+Association+with+Malaria

BACKGROUND:
Pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency, causing hemolytic anemia, has been associated to malaria protection and its prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa is not known so far. This work shows the results of a study undertaken to determine PK deficiency occurrence in some sub-Saharan African countries, as well as finding a prevalent PK variant underlying this deficiency.
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Expression and characterization of the Babesia bigemina cysteine protease BbiCPL1

  • Autores: Do Rosário VE, Domingos A, Martins TM
  • Ano de Publicação: 2012
  • Journal: Acta Tropica
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Expression+and+characterization+of+the+Babesia+bigemina+cysteine+protease+BbiCPL1.

BbiCPL1 was the first papain-like cysteine protease from a piroplasm to be identified with proteolytic activity. Here we report the improved production of the active recombinant enzyme, and the biochemical characterization of this potential drug target.
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Methods for assessment of antimalarial activity in the different phases of the Plasmodium life cycle

  • Autores: Do Rosário VE, Nogueira F
  • Ano de Publicação: 2010
  • Journal: Revista Pan-Amazônica de Saúde
  • Link: http://scielo.iec.pa.gov.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2176-62232010000300015

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium. In humans, parasites multiply in the liver and then infect red blood cells. The Plasmodium life cycle consists of a sexual phase in the mosquito vector (sporogony) and an asexual phase in the vertebrate host (schizogony); both life cycle phases can be detected in assays.
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Identification of papain-like cysteine proteases from the bovine piroplasm Babesia bigemina and evolutionary relationship of piroplasms C1 family of cysteine proteases.

  • Autores: Do Rosário VE, Domingos A, Martins TM
  • Ano de Publicação: 2011
  • Journal: Experimental Parasitology
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Identification+of+papain-like+cysteine+proteases+from+the+bovine+piroplasm+Babesia+bigemina+and+evolutionary+relationship+of+piroplasms+C1+family+of+cysteine+proteases.

Papain-like cysteine proteases have been shown to have essential roles in parasitic protozoa and are under study as promising drug targets. Five genes were identified by sequence similarity search to be homologous to the cysteine protease family in the ongoing Babesia bigemina genome sequencing project database and were compared with the annotated genes from the complete bovine piroplasm genomes of Babesia bovis, Theileria annulata, and Theileria parva.
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Expression and characterization of the Babesia bigemina cysteine protease BbiCPL1.

  • Autores: Do Rosário VE, Domingos A, Martins TM
  • Ano de Publicação: 2011
  • Journal: Acta Tropica
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Expression+and+characterization+of+the+Babesia+bigemina+cysteine+protease+babesipain-1.

BbiCPL1 was the first papain-like cysteine protease from a piroplasm to be identified with proteolytic activity. Here we report the improved production of the active recombinant enzyme, and the biochemical characterization of this potential drug target.
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Approaches towards tick and tick-borne diseases control

  • Autores: Antunes S, Borges L, Do Rosário VE, Domingos A
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical
  • Link: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0037-86822013000300265&script=sci_arttext

Ticks are obligate haematophagous ectoparasites of wild and domestic animals as well as humans, considered to be second worldwide to mosquitoes as vectors of human diseases. Tick-borne diseases are responsible worldwide for great economic losses in terms of mortality and morbidity of livestock animals. This review concerns to the different tick and tick-parasites control methods having a major focus on vaccines.
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Genetic diversity and signatures of selection of drug resistance in Plasmodium populations from both human and mosquito hosts in continental Equatorial Guinea

  • Autores: Arez AP, Benito A, Berzosa P, Cano J, de Sousa B, Do Rosário VE, Gonzalez V, Mendes C, Salgueiro P
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: Malaria Journal
  • Link: http://www.malariajournal.com/content/12/1/114

In Plasmodium, the high level of genetic diversity and the interactions established by co-infecting parasite populations within the same host may be a source of selection on pathogen virulence and drug resistance. As different patterns have already been described in humans and mosquitoes, parasite diversity and population structure should be studied in both hosts to properly assess their effects on infection and transmission dynamics. This study aimed to characterize the circulating populations of Plasmodium spp and Plasmodium falciparum from a combined set of human blood and mosquito samples gathered in mainland Equatorial Guinea. Further, the origin and evolution of anti-malarial resistance in this area, where malaria remains a major public health problem were traced.
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A review of antimalarial plants used in traditional medicine in communities in Portuguese-speaking countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola.

  • Autores: Amaral AC, Canto-Cavalheiro MM, de Moura DF, Do Rosário VE, Figueiredo P, Lopes D, Machado M, Neto Z, Ramos Ade S, Silva JR
  • Ano de Publicação: 2011
  • Journal: Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=A+review+of+antimalarial+plants+used+in+traditional+medicine+in+communities+in+Portuguese-Speaking+countries%3A+Brazil%2C+Mozambique%2C+Cape+Verde%2C+Guinea-Bissau%2C+Sao+Tome+and+Principe+and+Angola

The isolation of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants, based on traditional use or ethnomedical data, is a highly promising potential approach for identifying new and effective antimalarial drug candidates.
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Malaria: looking for selection signatures in the human PKLR gene region

  • Autores: Amorim A, Arez AP, Do Rosário VE, Fernandes N, Gusmão L, Machado P, Manco L, Miranda J, Pereira R, Ribeiro L, Rocha AM
  • Ano de Publicação: 2010
  • Journal: British journal of haematology
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Malaria%3A+looking+for+selection+signatures+in+the+human+PKLR+gene+region

The genetic component of susceptibility to malaria is both complex and multigenic and the better-known protective polymorphisms are those involving erythrocyte-specific structural proteins and enzymes. In vivo and in vitro data have suggested that pyruvate kinase deficiency, which causes a nonspherocytic haemolytic anaemia, could be protective against malaria severity in humans, but this hypothesis remains […]
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Analysis of malaria associated genetic traits in Cabo Verde, a melting pot of European and sub Saharan settlers

  • Autores: Alves J, Amorim A, Arez AP, Do Rosário VE, Faustino P, Gonçalves N, Gusmão L, Machado P, Manco L, Ribeiro L, Silva J
  • Ano de Publicação: 2010
  • Journal: Blood cells, molecules & diseases
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Analysis+of+malaria+associated+genetic+traits+in+Cabo+Verde%2C+a+melting+pot+of+European+and+sub+Saharan+settlers

Malaria has occurred in the Cabo Verde archipelago with epidemic characteristics since its colonization. Nowadays, it occurs in Santiago Island alone and though prophylaxis is not recommended by the World Health Organization, studies have highlight the prospect of malaria becoming a serious public health problem as a result of the presence of antimalarial drug resistance associated with mutations in the parasite populations and underscore the need for tighter surveillance.
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