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ArticleNature communications2019

Plasmodium vivax transcriptomes reveal stage-specific chloroquine response and differential regulation of male and female gametocytes.

Adam Kim, Jean Popovici, Didier Menard, David Serre

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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30 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Adam KimInstitute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 670 W Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.
Jean PopoviciMalaria Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, 5 Boulevard Monivong, PO Box 983, Phnom Penh, 12 201, Cambodia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3135-1175
Didier MenardMalaria Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, 5 Boulevard Monivong, PO Box 983, Phnom Penh, 12 201, Cambodia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1357-4495
David SerreInstitute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 670 W Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA. dserre@som.umaryland.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2446-9095
University of Maryland, Baltimore · USCambodia National Malaria Center · KHInstitut Pasteur · FR

Funding

Genomic Analyses of Plasmodium vivax Responses to Antimalarial Drugs in CambodiaR01AI103228 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI SERRE, DAVID · 2013 to 2017
$1.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI103228
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies of Plasmodium vivax gene expression are complicated by the lack of in vitro culture system and the difficulties associated with studying clinical infections that often contain multiple clones and a mixture of parasite stages. Here, we characterize the transcriptomes of P. vivax parasites from 26 malaria patients. We show that most parasite mRNAs derive from trophozoites and that the asynchronicity of P. vivax infections is therefore unlikely to confound gene expression studies. Analyses of gametocyte genes reveal two distinct clusters of co-regulated genes, suggesting that male and female gametocytes are independently regulated. Finally, we analyze gene expression changes induced by chloroquine and show that this antimalarial drug efficiently eliminates most P. vivax parasite stages but, in contrast to P. falciparum, does not affect trophozoites.

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AntimalarialsCell CycleChloroquineFemaleGene Expression RegulationGenes, ProtozoanGenome, ProtozoanHumansMalariaMalaria, FalciparumMalaria, VivaxMaleMultigene FamilyPlasmodium falciparumPlasmodium vivaxRNA, MessengerAntimalarialsChloroquineRNA, Messenger

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PMID30670687
PMCPMC6342968
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