Resilin is an elastic protein that is vital to insects’ vigorous movement. Canonical resilin proteins possess the R&R Consensus, a chitin-binding domain conserved in a family of cuticular proteins, and highly repetitive sequences conferring el...
Ahmed Tabbabi Daiki Mizushima Daisuke S Yamamoto Hirotomo Kato
Parasites & vectors 16(1) 310-310 2023年8月 [査読有り]
BACKGROUND: Blood-sucking phlebotomine sand flies are vectors of the protozoan parasites Leishmania spp. Although the intestinal microbiota is involved in a wide range of biological and physiological processes and has the potential to alter vector...
Daiki Mizushima Daisuke S Yamamoto Ahmed Tabbabi Meiji Arai Hirotomo Kato
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 13 1162918-1162918 2023年 [査読有り]
A rare sugar, allose, was reported to inhibit the development of Plasmodium parasites in Anopheles mosquitoes; however, the mechanism remains unknown. The present study addressed the inhibitory mechanism of allose on the development of the Plasmod...
Satoru Kawahori Chisato Seki Daiki Mizushima Ahmed Tabbabi Daisuke S Yamamoto Hirotomo Kato
Acta tropica 234 106602-106602 2022年7月 [査読有り]
Transcriptome analysis of the salivary gland cDNA library from a phlebotomine sand fly, Lutzomyia ayacuchensis, identified a transcript coding for the PpSP15/SL1 family protein as the second most abundant salivary component. In the present study, ...
Naoaki Shinzawa Chisako Kashima Hiroka Aonuma Kei Takahashi Masayuki Shimojima Shinya Fukumoto Erisha Saiki Daisuke S. Yamamoto Shigeto Yoshida Hiroyuki Matsuoka Yoshihiro Kawaoka Hirotaka Kanuka
Frontiers in Tropical Diseases 3 2022年5月 [査読有り]
Live microbe vaccines are designed to elicit strong cellular and antibody responses without developing the symptoms of the disease, and these are effective in preventing infectious diseases. A flying vaccinator (also known as a flying syringe) is ...
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