Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Protists

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Found: 138 records

• David Montagnes, Emily Roberts, Julius Lukeš, Chris Lowe (2012) The rise of model protozoa Trends in Microbiology 20: 184-191.

  DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2012.01.007

  Documents for download: 2012 Montagnes Trends in Microbiol 184

• Docampo R, Lukeš J. (2012) Trypanosomes and the solution to a 50-year mitochondrial calcium mystery. Trends in Parasitology 28: 31-37.

  DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.10.007

  Documents for download: 2012_Docampo_TIP_31

• Jirků Milan, Pomajbíková K., Petrželková K.J., Hůzová Z., Modrý D., Lukeš J. (2012) Detection of Plasmodium spp. in human feces. Emerging Infectious Diseases 18: 634–636. (link)

  DOI: 10.3201/eid1804.110984

• Kořený L., Sobotka R., Kovářová J., Gnipová A., Flegontov P., Horváth A., Oborník M., Ayala F.J., Lukeš J. (2012) Aerobic kinetoplastid flagellate Phytomonas does not require heme for viability. PNAS 109: 3808-3813. (link)

  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201089109

  Documents for download: 2012 Koreny PNAS 3808

• Oborník M., Modrý D., Lukeš M., Černotíková-Stříbrná E., Cihlář J., Tesařová M., Kotabová E., Vancová M., Prášil O., Lukeš J. (2012) Morphology, Ultrastructure and Life Cycle of Vitrella brassicaformis n. sp., n. gen., a Novel Chromerid from the Great Barrier Reef. Protist 163: 306-323. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2011.09.001

• Alfonzo J.D., Lukeš J. (2011) Assembling Fe/S-clusters and modifying tRNAs: ancient co-factors meet ancient adaptors. Trends in Parasitology 27: 234–237. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.02.003

• Ammerman M.L., Hashimi H., Novotná L., Číčová Z., Mcevoy S.M., Lukeš J., Read L.K. (2011) MRB3010 is a core component of the MRB1 complex that facilitates an early step of the kinetoplastid RNA editing process. RNA 17: 865–877. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1261/rna.2446311

• Černotíková E., Horák A., Moravec F. (2011) Phylogenetic relationships of some spirurine nematodes (Nematoda: Chromadorea: Rhabditida: Spirurina) parasitic in fishes inferred from SSU rRNA gene sequences. Folia Parasitologica 58: 135–148.

  Documents for download: 2011_Cernotikova_FP_135

• Doolittle W.F., Lukeš J., Archibald J.M., Keeling P.J., Gray M.W. (2011) Does constructive neutral evolution play an important role in the origin of cellular complexity? BioEssays 33: 427–429. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100039

• Flegontov P., Gray M.W., Burger G., Lukeš J. (2011) Gene fragmentation: a key to mitochondrial genome evolution in Euglenozoa? Current Genetics 57: 225–232.

  DOI: 10.1007/s00294-011-0340-8

• Kořený L., Oborník M. (2011) Sequence evidence for the presence of two tetrapyrrole pathways in Euglena gracilis. Genome Biology and Evolution 3: 359–364.

  DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr029

• Kořený L., Sobotka R., Janouškovec J., Keeling P.J., Oborník M. (2011) Tetrapyrrole synthesis of photosynthetic chromerids is likely homologous to the unusual pathway of apicomplexan parasites. Plant Cell 23: 3454–3462.

  DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.089102

• Long S., Changmai P., Tsaousis A.D., Skalický T., Verner Z., Wen Y.-Z., Roger, A.J., Lukeš J. (2011) Stage-specific requirement for Isa1 and Isa2 proteins in the mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei and heterologous rescue by human and Blastocystis orthologues. Molecular Microbiology 81: 1403–1418. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07769.x

• Lukeš J., Archibald J.M., Keeling P.J., Doolittle W.F., Gray M.W. (2011) How a neutral evolutionary ratchet can build cellular complexity. IUBMB Life 63: 528–537. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1002/iub.489

• Oborník M., Vancová M., Lai D.H., Janouškovec J., Keeling J.P., Lukeš J. (2011) Morphology and Ultrastructure of Multiple Life Cycle Stages of the Photosynthetic Relative of Apicomplexa, Chromera velia. Protist 162: 115–130. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2010.02.004

• Paris Z., Hashimi H., Lun S., Alfonzo J.D., Lukeš J. (2011) Futile import of tRNAs and proteins into the mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei evansi. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 176: 116–120. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.12.010

• Richterová L., Vávrová Z., Lukeš J. (2011) DEAD-box RNA helicase is dispensable for mitochondrial translation in Trypanosoma brucei. Experimental Parasitology 127: 300–303. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.06.036

• Sloboda M., Jirků Milan, Lukešová D., Qablan M., Batsukh Z., Fiala I., Horin P., Modrý D., Lukeš J. (2011) A survey for piroplasmids in horses and Bactrian camels in North-Eastern Mongolia. Veterinary Parasitology 179: 246–249.

  DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.01.064

• Szabová J., Růžička P., Verner Z., Hampl V., Lukeš J. (2011) Experimental Examination of EFL and MATX Eukaryotic Horizontal Gene Transfers: Coexistence of Mutually Exclusive Transcripts Predates Functional Rescue. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28: 2371–2378. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr060

• Tanifuji G., Kim E., Onodera N.T., Gibeault R., Dlutek M., Cawthorn R.J., Fiala I., Lukeš J., Greenwood,S., Archibald J.M. (2011) Genomic characterization of Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis (Amoebozoa) and its kinetoplastid endosymbiont. Eukaryotic Cell 10: 1143–1146. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1128/EC.05027-11

• Verner Z., Čermáková P., Škodová I., Kriegová E., Horváth A., Lukeš J. (2011) Complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) is active in but non-essential for procyclic Trypanosoma brucei. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol 175: 196–200. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.11.003

• Vlček Č., Marande W., Teijeiro S., Lukeš J., Burger G. (2011) Systematically fragmented genes in a multipartite mitochondrial genome. Nucleic Acids Research 39: 979–988. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq883

• Gazdag E.M., Cirstea I., Breitling R., Lukeš J., Blankenfeldt W., Alexandrov K. (2010) Purification and crystallization of human Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase recombinantly produced in the protozoan Leishmania tarentolae. Acta Crystallographica Section F 66: 871–877. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1107/S1744309110019330

• Gray M.W., Lukeš J., Archibald J.M., Keeling P.J., Doolittle W.F. (2010) Irremediable complexity? Science 330: 920-921. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1126/science.1198594

• Hashimi H., Benkovičová V., Čermáková P., Lai D.-H., Horváth A., Lukeš J. (2010) The assembly of F1FO-ATP synthase is disrupted upon interference of RNA editing in Trypanosoma brucei. International Journal for Parasitology 40: 45–54. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.07.005

• Janouškovec J., Horák A., Oborník M., Lukeš J., Keeling P.J. (2010) A common red algal origin of the apicomplexan, dinoflagellate, and heterokont plastids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107: 10949–10954. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003335107

• Jiroutová K., Kořený L., Bowler C., Oborník M. (2010) A gene in the process of endosymbiotic transfer. PLoS ONE 5: e13234.

  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013234

• Keeling P.J., Leander B.S., Lukeš J. (2010) Reply to Speijer: Does complexity necessarily arise from selective advantage? Reply. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107: e26. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911933107

• Kořený L., Lukeš J., Oborník M. (2010) Evolution of the heme synthetic pathway in kinetoplastid flagellates: An essential pathway that is not essential after all? International Journal for Parasitology 40: 149–156. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.11.007

• Lukeš J., Hashimi H., Verner Z., Číčová Z. (2010) The remarkable mitochondrion of trypanosomes and related flagellates. In: W. de Souza (Ed.), Structures and Organelles in Pathogenic Protists. Microbiology Monographs 17. Springer-Verlag, Berlin,: 228–252. (pdf)

• Lukeš J., Raper J. (2010) Prophylactic antiparasitic transgenesis for human parasitic disease? Molecular Therapy 18: 1745–1747. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1038/mt.2010.193

• Lun Z.-R., Lai D.H., Li F.-J., Lukeš J., Ayala F.J. (2010) Trypanosoma brucei: two steps to spread out from Africa. Trends in Parasitology 26: 424–427. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2010.05.007

• Maslov D.A., Yurchenko V.Y., Jirků M. (Milan), Lukeš J. (2010) Two new species of trypanosomatid parasites isolated from Heteroptera in Costa Rica. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 57: 177–188. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2009.00464.x

• Paris Z., Changmai P., Rubio M.A.T., Zíková A., Stuart K.D., Alfonzo J.D., Lukeš J. (2010) The Fe/S Cluster assembly protein Isd11 is essential for tRNA thiolation in Trypanosoma brucei. Journal of Biological Chemistry 285: 22394–22402. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M109.083774

• Poliak P., Van Hoewyk D., Oborník M., Zíková A. , Stuart K., Tachezy J., Pilon M., Lukeš J. (2010) Functions and cellular localization of cysteine desulfurase and selenocysteine lyase in Trypanosoma brucei. FEBS Journal 277: 383–393. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07489.x

• Simpson L., Aphasizhev R., Lukeš J., Cruz-Reyes J. (2010) Guide to the nomenclature of kinetoplastid editing: A proposal Protist 161: 2-6. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2009.10.001

• Týč J., Faktorová D., Kriegová E., Jirků M. (Milan), Vávrová Z., Maslov D.A., Lukeš J. (2010) Probing for primary functions of prohibitin in Trypanosoma brucei. International Journal for Parasitology 40: 73–83. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.07.008

• Týč J., Long S., Jirků M. (Milan), Lukeš J. (2010) YCF45 protein, usually associated with plastids, is targeted into the mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 173: 43–47. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.05.002

• Verner Z., Paris Z., Lukeš J. (2010) Mitochondrial membrane potential-based genome-wide RNAi screen of Trypanosoma brucei. Parasitology Research 106: 1241–1244. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-1754-9

• Votýpka J., Maslov D.A., Yurchenko V., Jirků M. (Milan), Kment P., Lun Z.-R., Lukeš J. (2010) Probing into the diversity of trypanosomatid flagellates parasitizing insect hosts in South-West China reveals both endemism and global distribution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54: 243–253. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.10.014

• Faber W.R., Wonders J., Jensema A.J., Chocholová E., Kager P.A. (2009) Cutaneous leishmaniasis with lymphadenopathy due to Leishmania donovani. Clinical and experimental dermatology 34: E196–E198.

  DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2008.02996.x

• FOLDYNOVÁ-TRANTÍRKOVÁ S., MATULOVÁ J., DOTSCH V., LOHR F., CIRSTEA I., ALEXANDOV K., BREITLING R., LUKEŠ J., TRANTÍREK L. (2009) A cost-effective amino-acidtype selective isotope labeling of proteins expressed in Leishmania tarentolae. Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics 26: 755-761. (pdf)

• GILE G.H., FAKTOROVÁ D., CASTLEJOHN C.A., BURGER G., LANG B.F., FARMER M.A., LUKEŠ J., KEELING P.J. (2009) Distribution and phylogeny of EFL and EF-1? in Euglenozoa suggest ancestral co-occurrence followed by differential loss. e5162 4: 0-0. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005162

• HASHIMI H., ČÍČOVÁ Z., NOVOTNÁ L., WEN Y.Z., LUKEŠ J. (2009) Kinetoplastid guide RNA biogenesis is dependent on subunits of the mitochondrial RNA binding complex 1 and mitochondrial RNA polymerase. RNA 15: 588-599. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1261/rna.1411809

• JIRKŮ M., JIRKŮ M., OBORNÍK M., LUKEŠ J., MODRÝ D. (2009) Goussia Labbé, 1896(Apicomplexa, Eimeriorina) in Amphibia: diversity, biology, molecular phylogeny and comments on the status of the genus. Protist 160: 123-136. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2008.08.003

• JIRKŮ M., JIRKŮ M., OBORNÍK M., LUKEŠ J., MODRÝ D. (2009) A model for taxonomic work on homoxenous coccidia: redescription, host specificity, and molecular phylogeny of Eimeria ranae Dobell, 1909, with a review of anuran-host Eimeria (Apicomplexa: Eimeriorina). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 56: 39-51. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00362.x

• LAI D.H., WANG Q.P., LI Z., LUKEŠ J., LUN Z.R. (2009) Evolution of the serum resistance-associated SRA gene in African trypanosomes. Chinese Science Bulletin 54: 1275-1278. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0137-z

• LUKEŠ J., LEANDER B.S., KEELING P.J. (2009) Cascades of convergent evolution: the corresponding evolutionary histories of euglenozoans and dinoflagellates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 9963-9970. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901004106

• NEČAS P., SINDACO R., KOŘENÝ L., KOPEČNÁ J., MALONZA P.K., MODRÝ D. (2009) Kinyongia asheorum sp. n., a new montane chameleon from the Nyiro Range, northern Kenya (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa 2028: 41-50. (pdf)

• OBORNÍK M., JANOUŠKOVEC J., CHRUDIMSKÝ T., LUKEŠ J. (2009) Evolution of the apicoplast and its hosts: from heterotrophy to autotrophy and back again. International Journal for Parasitology 39: 1-12. (pdf)

  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.07.010

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