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  • Exploring the transmission-blocking activity of antiplasmodial 3,6-diarylated imidazopyridazines 
    Coertzen, Dina; Reader, Janette; Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Leshabane, Meta Kgaogelo; Langeveld, Henrico; Cheuka, Peter M.; Dziwornu, Godwin Akpeko; Chibale, Kelly; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie (Taylor and Francis, 2021)
    The effectiveness of current antimalarial therapies that cure patients of the pathogenic asexual blood stages is rapidly declining due to the spread of antimalarial drug resistance. This requires the development of novel ...
  • Expression and production of soluble Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv mycosin-3 
    Fang, Zhuo; Schubert, Wolf-Dieter; Van Pittius, Nicolaas Claudius Gey (Elsevier, 2016-02-06)
    Mycobacteria encode five type VII secretion system (T7SS) or ESX for nutrient acquisition and virulence. Mycosins are membrane-anchored components of ESX with serine protease activity but an unidentified substrate range. ...
  • Expression of several Phytophthora cinnamomi putative RxLRs provides evidence for virulence roles in avocado 
    Joubert, Melissa; Backer, Robert; Engelbrecht, Juanita; Van den Berg, Noelani (Public Library of Science, 2021-07)
    Phytophthora cinnamomi is a plant pathogenic oomycete that causes Phytophthora root rot of avocado (PRR). Currently, there is a limited understanding of the molecular interactions underlying this disease. Other Phytophthora ...
  • Extending the host range of Phytophthora multivora, a pathogen of woody plants in horticulture, nurseries, urban environments and natural ecosystems 
    Migliorini, Duccio; Khdiar, Mohammed Y.; Padron, Cristina Rodriguez; Vivas, Maria; Barber, Paul A.; Hardy, Giles E. St J.; Burgess, Treena I. (Elsevier, 2019-12)
    Phytophthora multivora is a recently described species with a global distribution associated with disease of many woody plant species. However, very few pathogenicity studies have been conducted to determine the host range ...
  • Extracellular vesicles in teasing apart complex plant-microbiota links : implications for microbiome-based biotechnology 
    Motaung, Thabiso Eric; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (American Society for Microbiology, 2021-07)
    Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are subcellular carriers of bioactive compounds with a complex array of functional effects on target cells. In mammals, circulating bodily fluid microbiota EVs (mbEVs) deliver cargo from ...
  • Facial adiposity, attractiveness, and health : a review 
    De Jager, Stefan; Coetzee, Nicoleen; Coetzee, Vinet (BioMed Central, 2018-12-21)
    The relationship between facial cues and perceptions of health and attractiveness in others plays an influential role in our social interactions and mating behaviors. Several facial cues have historically been investigated ...
  • Facile route to targeted, biodegradable polymeric prodrugs for the delivery of combination therapy for malaria 
    Fortuin, Lisa; Leshabane, Meta Kgaogelo; Pfukwa, Rueben; Coertzen, Dina; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie; Klumperman, Bert (American Chemical Society, 2020-10)
    A facile synthetic methodology has been developed to prepare multifaceted polymeric prodrugs that are targeted, biodegradable, and nontoxic, and used for the delivery of combination therapy. This is the first instance of ...
  • Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses 
    Li, Fay-Wei; Brouwer, Paul; Carretero-Paulet, Lorenzo; Cheng, Shifeng; De Vries, Jan; Delaux, Pierre-Marc; Eily, Ariana; Koppers, Nils; Kuo, Li-Yaung; Li, Zheng; Simenc, Mathew; Small, Ian; Wafula, Eric; Angarita, Stephany; Barker, Michael S.; Brautigam, Andrea; DePamphilis, Claude; Gould, Sven; Hosmani, Prashant S.; Huang, Yao-Moan; Huettel, Bruno; Kato, Yoichiro; Liu, Xin; Maere, Steven; McDowell, Rose; Mueller, Lukas A.; Nierop, Klaas G.J.; Rensing, Stefan A.; Robison, Tanner; Rothfels, Carl J.; Sigel, Erin M.; Song, Yue; Timilsena, Prakash R.; Van de Peer, Yves; Wang, Hongli; Wilhelmsson, Per K.I.; Wolf, Paul G.; Xu, Xun; Der, Joshua P.; Schluepmann, Henriette; Wong, Gane K.-S.; Pryer, Kathleen M. (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-07-02)
    Ferns are the closest sister group to all seed plants, yet little is known about their genomes other than that they are generally colossal. Here, we report on the genomes of Azolla filiculoides and Salvinia cucullata ...
  • Few figs for frugivores : riparian fig trees in Zimbabwe may not be a dry season keystone resource 
    Compton, Stephen G.; Greeff, Jaco M. (Jacobus Maree) (Wiley, 2020-12)
    Most plants flower and fruit at times of year when probabilities of pollination and seedling establishment are high. Fig trees (Ficus spp.) are often considered as keystone resources for vertebrate frugivores, in part ...
  • Filamentous fungi and yeasts associated with mites phoretic on Ips typographus in Eastern Finland 
    Linnakoski, Riikka; Lasarov, Ilmeini; Veteli, Pyry; Tikkanen, Olli-Pekka; Viiri, Heli; Jyske, Tuula; Kasanen, Risto; Duong, Tuan A.; Wingfield, Michael J. (MDPI, 2021-06-04)
    The European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) has become a major forest pest in Finland in recent years. The beetle is a well-known vector of mainly ophiostomatoid fungi causing bluestain of timber and pathogens that ...
  • Finding stories in noise : Mitochondrial portraits from RAD data 
    Stobie, Connor Seamus; Cunningham, Michael J.; Oosthuizen, C.J. (Carel); Bloomer, Paulette (Wiley, 2019-01)
    many years; however, recent trends focus on genome‐wide analyses. One method proposed for calibrating inferences from noisy next‐generation data, such as RAD sequencing, is to compare these results with analyses of ...
  • First draft genome assembly of the Argane tree (Argania spinosa) [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] 
    Khayi, Slimane; Azza, Nour Elhouda; Gaboun, Fatima; Pirro, Stacy; Badad, Oussama; Lightfoot, David A.; Unver, Turgay; Chaouni, Bouchra; Merrouch, Redouane; Rahim, Bouchra; Essayeh, Soumaya; Ganoudi, Matika; Abdelwahd, Rabha; Diria, Ghizlane; Mdarhi, Meriem Alaoui; Labhilili, Mustapha; Iraqi, Driss; Claros, M Gonzalo; Mouhaddab, Jamila; Sedrati, Hayat; Memari, Majid; Hamamouch, Noureddine; De Dios Alche, Juan; Alche, Juan de Dios; Boukhatem, Noureddine; Mrabet, Rachid; Dahan, Rachid; Legssyer, Adelkhaleq; Khalfaoui, Mohamed; Badraoui, Mohamed; Van de Peer, Yves; Tatusova, Tatiana; El Mousadik, Abdelhamid; Mentag, Rachid; Ghazal, Hassan (F1000 Research, 2020)
    BACKGROUND : The Argane tree (Argania spinosa L. Skeels) is an endemic tree of mid-western Morocco that plays an important socioeconomic and ecologic role for a dense human population in an arid zone. Several studies ...
  • First draft genome assembly of the desert locust, Schistocerca Gregaria 
    Verlinden, Heleen; Sterck, Lieven; Li, Jia; Li, Zhen; Yssel, A.E.J. (Anna); Gansemans, Yannick; Verdonck, Rik; Holtof, Michiel; Song, Hojun; Behmer, Spencer T.; Sword, Gregory A.; Matheson, Tom; Ott, Swidbert R.; Deforce, Dieter; Van Nieuwerburgh, Filip; Van de Peer, Yves; Vanden Broeck, Jozef (F1000Research, 2020)
    BACKGROUND: At the time of publication, the most devastating desert locust crisis in decades is affecting East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and South-West Asia. The situation is extremely alarming in East Africa, where ...
  • The first space-related study of a kombucha multimicrobial cellulose-forming community : preparatory laboratory experiments 
    Podolich O.; Zaets, I.; Kukharenko, O.; Orlovska, I.; Reva, Oleg N.; Khirunenko, Ludmila; Sosnin, M.; Haidak, A.; Shpylova, S.; Rohutskyy, I.; Kharina, A.; Skoryk, M.; Kremenskoy, M.; Klymchuk, D.; Demets, R.; De Vera, J.P.; Kozyrovska, Natalia (Springer, 2017-06)
    Biofilm-forming microbial communities are known as the most robust assemblages that can survive in harsh environments. Biofilm-associated microorganisms display greatly increased resistance to physical and chemical adverse ...
  • The first syntheses of single enantiomers of the major methoxymycolic acid of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 
    Al Dulayymi, Juma'a R.; Baird, Mark S.; Roberts, Evan; Deysel, Madrey; Verschoor, J.A. (Jan Adrianus), 1953- (Elsevier, 2007-03-19)
    Mycolic acids (Scheme 1) are major constituents of the cell envelope of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacteria, some of which are pathogenic to animals and humans.1 and 2 Their presence is thought to be linked ...
  • Fitness of outer membrane vesicles from komagataeibacter intermedius is altered under the impact of simulated mars-like stressors outside the international space station 
    Podolich, Olga; Kukharenko, Olga; Zaets, Iryna; Orlovska, Iryna; Palchykovska, Larysa; Zaika, Leoni; Sysoliatin, Serhii; Zubova, Ganna; Reva, Oleg N.; Galkin, Maxym; Horid’ko, Tetyana; Kosiakova, Halyna; Borisova, Tatiana; Kravchenko, Volodymyr; Skoryk, Mykola; Kremenskoy, Maksym; Ghosh, Preetam; Barh, Debmalya; Góes-Neto, Aristoteles; Azevedo, Vasco; De Vera., Jean-Pierre; Kozyrovska, Natalia (Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-06)
    Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), produced by nonpathogenic Gram-negative bacteria, have potentially useful biotechnological applications in extraterrestrial extreme environments. However, their biological effects under ...
  • Flagella by numbers: comparative genomic analysis of the supernumerary flagellar systems among the Enterobacterales 
    De Maayer, Pieter; Pillay, Talia; Coutinho, Teresa A. (BioMed Central, 2020)
    BACKGROUND: Flagellar motility is an efficient means of movement that allows bacteria to successfully colonize and compete with other microorganisms within their respective environments. The production and functioning ...
  • Foliar pathogens of eucalypts 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Cheewangkoon, R.; Carnegie, A.J.; Burgess, T.I.; Summerell, B.A.; Edwards, J.; Taylor, P.W.J.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (Elsevier, 2019-09)
    Species of eucalypts are commonly cultivated for solid wood and pulp products. The expansion of commercially managed eucalypt plantations has chiefly been driven by their rapid growth and suitability for propagation across ...
  • Formation of the Asian Rabies Control Network (ARACON) : a common approach towards a global good 
    Coetzer, Andre; Scott, Terence Peter; Amparo, Anna Charinna; Jayme, Sarah; Nel, Louis Hendrik (Elsevier, 2018-09)
    The drive towards the worldwide elimination of dog-mediated human rabies by 2030 is the first step towards the ultimate goal of dog rabies elimination – as dogs account for more than 99% of human rabies cases globally – ...
  • Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy discloses different types of cell death in flow cytometrically sorted cells 
    Le Roux, Karlien; Prinsloo, Linda Charlotta; Meyer, Debra (Elsevier, 2015-10)
    Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is a label free methodology showing promise in characterizing different types of cell death. Cervical adenocarcinoma (HeLa) and African monkey kidney (Vero) cells were treated ...