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ReviewTrends in parasitology2024

The Plasmodium circumsporozoite protein.

Mirko Singer, Sachie Kanatani, Stefano Garcia Castillo, Friedrich Frischknecht, Photini Sinnis

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Review in Trends in parasitology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Machine learning enables de novo multiepitope design ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mirko SingerParasitology, Center for Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University Medical Faculty, Heidelberg, Germany.
Sachie KanataniJohns Hopkins School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Stefano Garcia CastilloJohns Hopkins School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Friedrich FrischknechtParasitology, Center for Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University Medical Faculty, Heidelberg, Germany; German Center for Infection Research, partner site Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Photini SinnisJohns Hopkins School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: psinnis1@jhu.edu.

Funding

The Skin Phase of Malaria Infection (Sharon Patray Diversity Supplement)R01AI132359 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SINNIS, PHOTINI · 2017 to 2021
$2.7M
Image-based quantification of Plasmodium sporozoites in a single oocyst using deep learning-based segmentation and 3D reconstructionR03AI180804 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KANATANI, SACHIE, SINNIS, PHOTINI · 2024 to 2025
$161k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI132359NIAID NIH HHS R03 AI180804
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The circumsporozoite protein (CSP) is one of the most studied proteins of the malaria parasite. It is the target of the only licensed malaria vaccines and is essential for sporozoite formation and infectivity. Yet, the mechanisms by which CSP functions and its interactions with other proteins are only beginning to be understood. Here we review the current state of knowledge of CSP structure and function, as sporozoites develop in the mosquito and establish infection in the mammalian host, and outline outstanding questions that need to be addressed.

Indexed as

PlasmodiumProtozoan ProteinsSporozoitesAnimalsHumansMalariacircumsporozoite protein, ProtozoanProtozoan ProteinsadhesionGPI-anchormalariamosquitooocyst

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PMID39572325
PMCPMC12223538

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