Trends in parasitologyPub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.008
Liwang Cui
{"title":"Predicting Plasmodium drug resistance through in vitro evolution.","authors":"Liwang Cui","doi":"10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Knowledge about the resistibility and targets of compounds critically informs antimalarial drug development. Luth et al. systematically analyzed the resistome of Plasmodium falciparum through in vitro evolution and whole-genome analysis of 724 clones resistant to 118 compounds, revealing novel drug targets, multidrug resistance loci, and key determinants of resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":23327,"journal":{"name":"Trends in parasitology","volume":" ","pages":"170-171"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11884984/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143400222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Trends in parasitologyPub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.012
Bart Everts
{"title":"Helminths target macrophage epigenetics and metabolism to evade immunity.","authors":"Bart Everts","doi":"10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parasitic helminths are well known master regulators of host immune responses. Yet, the underlying molecular principles remain largely enigmatic. Recent work from Bohnacker et al. reveals that glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), a metabolic enzyme secreted by Heligmosomoides polygyrus, can suppress type 2 immunity by multimodal regulation of macrophage metabolism and epigenetics.</p>","PeriodicalId":23327,"journal":{"name":"Trends in parasitology","volume":" ","pages":"172-174"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143426493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maarten P M Vanhove, Antoine Pariselle, Nikol Kmentová
{"title":"Cichlidogyrus casuarinus.","authors":"Maarten P M Vanhove, Antoine Pariselle, Nikol Kmentová","doi":"10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23327,"journal":{"name":"Trends in parasitology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne Lespine, Clara Blancfuney, Roger Prichard, Melanie Alberich
{"title":"P-glycoproteins in anthelmintic safety, efficacy, and resistance: (Trends in Parasitology 40, 896-913; 2024).","authors":"Anne Lespine, Clara Blancfuney, Roger Prichard, Melanie Alberich","doi":"10.1016/j.pt.2025.02.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2025.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23327,"journal":{"name":"Trends in parasitology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Having your cake and eating it too - a new target for sporozoite-neutralising mAbs.","authors":"Joe A Kaczmarski, Colin J Jackson, Ian A Cockburn","doi":"10.1016/j.pt.2025.02.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2025.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Current malaria vaccines provide suboptimal, waning protection. Dacon et al. identify a protective post-translationally modified epitope on Plasmodium sporozoites that is absent from current vaccines. This discovery deepens our understanding of Plasmodium biology and may inform the development of improved vaccines and complementary prophylactic monoclonal antibodies.</p>","PeriodicalId":23327,"journal":{"name":"Trends in parasitology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143473122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culex pipiens complex (common house mosquito).","authors":"Haoues Alout, Maxime Prat, Pierrick Labbé","doi":"10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2025.01.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23327,"journal":{"name":"Trends in parasitology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143477048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Trends in parasitologyPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2024.12.014
Surendra K Prajapati, Kim C Williamson
{"title":"Genome-scale, functional screen of Plasmodium sexual replication.","authors":"Surendra K Prajapati, Kim C Williamson","doi":"10.1016/j.pt.2024.12.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pt.2024.12.014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Malaria mortality remains above 500 000 people annually, demonstrating the need for new and innovative control approaches. Using a genome-scale, functional screen of Plasmodium sexual replication, Sayers et al. identified over 300 genes essential for malaria transmission through the mosquito, providing many new candidates for drug and vaccine development.</p>","PeriodicalId":23327,"journal":{"name":"Trends in parasitology","volume":" ","pages":"80-82"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143012345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}