TWiP 48: A parasitic cloaking device
This Week in Parasitism · Vincent Racaniello
December 18, 20121h 7m
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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Josef Sabo
Vincent, Dickson, and Josef discuss tetraspanins on the surface of schistosomes as vaccine candidates and immune evasion proteins.
Links for this episode:- S. japonicum tetraspanin-2 as a vaccine target (PLoS NTP)
- Protection with S. mansoni tetraspanin-2 (PLoS NTP)
- S. mansoni tetraspanins confer protection (Nat Med)
- Tetraspanins
- Letters read on TWiP 48
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