ArticleMolecular biology international2011
A perspective on the emergence of sialic acids as potent determinants affecting leishmania biology.
Article in Molecular biology international, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Review
- The Role of Sialic Acids in the Establishment of Infections by Pathogens, With Special Focus onFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Review
- Overview of the role of kinetoplastid surface carbohydrates in infection and host cell invasion: prospects for therapeutic intervention.Parasitology · 2019Review
- Leishmania tarentolae: Taxonomic classification and its application as a promising biotechnological expression host.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Review
- Modulation of TLR4 Sialylation Mediated by a Sialidase Neu1 and Impairment of Its Signaling inFrontiers in immunology · 2019Article
- Leishmania donovani Utilize Sialic Acids for Binding and Phagocytosis in the Macrophages through Selective Utilization of Siglecs and Impair the Innate Immune Arm.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2016Article
- Sialic acids siglec interaction: a unique strategy to circumvent innate immune response by pathogens.The Indian journal of medical research · 2013Review
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania sp. has a wide range of manifestations from cutaneous to the deadly visceral form. They shuttle between the invertebrate and vertebrate hosts as promastigotes and amastigotes having adaptations for subverting host immune responses. Parasite-specific glycoconjugates have served as important determinants influencing parasite recognition, internalization, differentiation, multiplication, and virulence. Despite the steady progress in the field of parasite glycobiology, sialobiology has been a less traversed domain of research in leishmaniasis. The present paper focuses on identification, characterization, and differential distribution of sialoglycotope having the linkage-specific 9-O-acetylated sialic acid in promastigotes of different Leishmania sp. causing different clinical ramifications emphasizing possible role of these sialoglycotopes in infectivity, virulence, nitric oxide resistance, and host modulation in Leishmania spp. asserting them to be important molecules influencing parasite biology.
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