Revealing parasite influence in metabolic pathways in Apicomplexa infected patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As an obligate intracellular parasite, Apicomplexa interacts with the host in the special living environment, competing for energy and nutrients from the host cells by manipulating the host metabolism. Previous studies of host-parasite interaction mainly focused on using cellular and biochemical methods to investigate molecular functions in metabolic pathways of parasite infected hosts. Computational approaches taking advantage of high-throughput biological data and topology of metabolic pathways have a great potential in revealing the details and mechanism of parasites-to-host interactions. A new analytical method was designed in this work to study host-parasite interactions in human cells infected with Plasmodium falciparum and Cryptosporidium parvum.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Xu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3024860 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature