Pienaar, Ronel; De Klerk, Daniel G.; De Castro, Minique H.; Featherston, Jonathan; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes)(Nature Research, 2021-01)
Ticks secrete proteins in their saliva that change over the course of feeding to modulate the host
infammation, immune responses, haemostasis or may cause paralysis. RNA next generation
sequencing technologies can reveal ...
De Castro, Minique Hilda; De Klerk, Daniel; Pienaar, Ronel; Rees, D. Jasper G.; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes)(BioMed Central, 2017-08-10)
BACKGROUND : Ticks secrete a diverse mixture of secretory proteins into the host to evade its immune response and
facilitate blood-feeding, making secretory proteins attractive targets for the production of recombinant ...
Pienaar, Ronel; Neitz, Albert Walter Herman; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes)(MDPI Publishing, 2018-05-14)
In comparison to other arachnids, ticks are major vectors of disease, but less than 8% of
the known species are capable of inducing paralysis, as compared to the ~99–100% arachnids that
belong to venomous classes. When ...
