TWiP is a monthly netcast about eukaryotic parasites. Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier, science Professors from Columbia University, deconstruct parasites, how they cause illness, and how you can prevent infections.
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TWiP 48: A parasitic cloaking device
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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