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Domingos A

Solute carriers affect Anopheles stephensi survival and Plasmodium berghei infection in the salivary glands

  • Autores: Antunes S, Couto J, de la Fuente J, Do Rosário V, Domingos A, Pinheiro-Silva R
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: Scientific Reports
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28733628

Malaria is caused by mosquito-borne Plasmodium spp. parasites that must infect and survive within mosquito salivary glands (SGs) prior to host transmission. Recent advances in transcriptomics and the complete genome sequencing of mosquito vectors have increased our knowledge of the SG genes and proteins involved in pathogen infection and transmission.
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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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Generation and Characterization of Monoclonal Antibodies against Rift Valley Fever Virus Nucleoprotein

  • Autores: Antunes S, Coetzer JAW, Domingos A, Esteves A, Fafetine JM, Neves L, Paweska JT, Rutten VPMG
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24589098

Due to the unpredictable and explosive nature of Rift Valley fever (RVF) outbreaks, rapid and accurate diagnostic assays for low-resource settings are urgently needed. To improve existing diagnostic assays, monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for the nucleocapsid protein of RVF virus (RVFV) were produced and characterized. Four IgG2a MAbs showed specific binding to denatured nucleocapsid protein, both from a recombinant source and from inactivated RVFV, in Western blot analysis and in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
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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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Vaccination with proteins involved in tick-pathogen interactions reduces vector infestations and pathogen infection

  • Autores: Antunes S, de la Fuente J, Domingos A, Merino O, Moreno-Cid JA, Mosqueda J, Perez de la Lastra JM, Rodríguez S, Rosario-Cruz R
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: Vaccine
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24084474

Tick-borne pathogens cause diseases that greatly impact animal health and production worldwide. The ultimate goal of tick vaccines is to protect against tick-borne diseases through the control of vector infestations and reducing pathogen infection and transmission. Tick genetic traits are involved in vector-pathogen interactions and some of these molecules such as Subolesin (SUB) have been shown to protect against vector infestations and pathogen infection.
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Functional genomics studies of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) annulatus ticks in response to infection with the cattle protozoan parasite, Babesia bigemina.

  • Autores: Almazán C, Antunes S, de la Fuente J, Do Rosário V, Domingos A, Galindo RC, Golovchenko M, Grubhoffer L, Rudenko N, Shkap V
  • Ano de Publicação: 2012
  • Journal: International Journal for Parasitology
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Functional+genomics+studies+of+Rhipicephalus+(Boophilus)+annulatus+ticks+in+response+to+infection+with+the+cattle+protozoan+parasite%2C+Babesia+bigemina

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, but the most important vectors of disease-causing pathogens in domestic and wild animals. Babesia spp. are tick-borne pathogens that cause a disease called babesiosis in a wide range of animals and in humans.
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Evaluation of the growth-inhibitory effect of trifluralin analogues on in vitro cultured Babesia bovis parasites

  • Autores: Cruz MEM, Domingos A, Esteves MA, Silva MG, Suarez CE
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance
  • Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24533294

Bovine babesiosis, caused by Babesia bovis, is a global tick borne hemoprotozoan parasite disease characterized by fever, anemia, weight losses and ultimately death. Several babesicidal drugs that have been in use in cattle for years have proven to be only partially effective and the development of alternative chemotherapeutics that are highly specific and have low toxicity against babesiosis is needed. Trifluralin derivatives specifically bind alpha-tubulin in plants and protozoa parasites causing growth inhibition.
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Inhibition of ovine in vitro fertilization by anti-Prt antibody: Hypothetical model for Prt/ZP interaction

  • Autores: Baptista MC, Barbas JP, Cabrita E, Domingos A, Fontes CA, Horta EMA, Marques CC, Martins IC, Mesquita P, Pereira MLNR, Pessa P, Pimenta J, Prates AMJ, Sardinha J, Soares R, Viegas A
  • Ano de Publicação: 2013
  • Journal: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
  • Link: http://www.rbej.com/content/11/1/25

The impact of prion proteins in the rules that dictate biological reproduction is still poorly understood. Likewise, the role of prnt gene, encoding the prion-like protein testis specific (Prt), in ram reproductive physiology remains largely unknown. In this study, we assessed the effect of Prt in ovine fertilization by using an anti-Prt antibody (APPA) in fertilization medium incubated with spermatozoa and oocytes. Moreover, a computational model was constructed to infer how the results obtained could be related to a hypothetical role for Prt in sperm-zona pellucida (ZP) binding.
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