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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Biochemistry

The biochemistry, immunology and molecular biology of parasites and bacteria of medical-veterinary significance in Southern Africa - Research Output

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Birkholtz L, Van Brummelen AC, Clark K, Niemand J, Marechal E, Llinas M, Louw AI: 2008. Exploring functional genomics for drug target and therapeutics discovery Plasmodia. Acta Tropica, 105, pp 113-123, Full Text

Clark K, Dhoogra M, Louw AI, Birkholtz L: 2008. Transcriptional responses of Plasmodium falciparum to a-difluoromethylornithine-induced polyamine depletion. Biological Chemistry, 389, pp 111-125.

De la Fuente J, Maritz-Olivier C, Naranjo V, Ayoubi P, Nijhof AM, Almazan C, Canales M, Perez de la Lastra JM, Galindo RC, Blouin EF, Gortazar C, Jongejan F, Kocan KM: 2008. Evidence of the role of tick subolesin in gene expression. BMC Genomics, 9 / Aug, pp e1-16, Full Text

Benadie Y, Deysel MSM, Siko DGR, Roberts VV, van Wyngaardt S, Thanyani ST, Sekanka G, Ten Bokum A, Grooten J, Baird MS, Verschoor JA, Pilcher (Collett) LA: 2008. Cholesteroid nature of free mycolic acids from M. tuberculosis. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 152, pp 95-103.

Thanyani TS, Roberts VV, Siko DGR, Vrey PJ, Verschoor JA: 2008. A novel application of affinity biosensor technology to detect antibodies to mycolic acid in tuberculosis patients. Journal of Immunological Methods, 332 (1-2), pp 61-72.

Birkholtz L, Blatch G, Coetzer TL, Hoppe HC, Human E, Ngcete Z, Oldfield L, Roth R, Shonhai A, Stephens L, Louw AI, Morris EJ, Morris E: 2008. Morris: Dual affiliation UP and WITS: Heterologous expression of plasmodial proteins for structural studies and functional annotation. Malaria Journal, 7 (197) / Oct, pp e1-20, Full Text

Mangwende T, Wang M, Borth W, Hu J, Moore PH, Mirkov TE, Albert HH: 2008. The PO gene of Sugarcane yellow leaf virus encodes an RNA silencing suppressor with unique activities. Virology, 384, pp 38-50.

Chapters in books:

Mans BJ, Gothe R, Neitz AWH: 2008. Tick toxins: perspective on paralysis and other forms of toxicoses caused by ticks. In Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control, (5), Cambridge University Press, pp 108-126.

 

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