Name - Leishmania pifanoi

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:879768 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Leishmania pifanoi Medina & Homere 1962

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Recent Publications

• Acidic pH stress induces protein tyrosine phosphorylation in Leishmania pifanoi.
• Evidence for a recent mutation giving rise to a truncated copy of a cysteine proteinase gene in Leishmania pifanoi.
• Dendritic cell (DC)-specific intercellular adhesion molecule 3 (ICAM-3)-grabbing nonintegrin (DC-SIGN, CD209), a C-type surface lectin in human DCs, is a receptor for Leishmania amastigotes.
• The C-terminal extension of Leishmania pifanoi amastigote-specific cysteine proteinase Lpcys2: a putative function in macrophage infection.
• Proteome profiling of the growth phases of Leishmania pifanoi promastigotes in axenic culture reveals differential abundance of immunostimulatory proteins.

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