"Acanthamoeba" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of free-living soil amoebae that produces no flagellate stage. Its organisms are pathogens for several infections in humans and have been found in the eye, bone, brain, and respiratory tract.
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D000048
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.046.500.100.075.080
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Acanthamoeba" by people in Profiles.
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Zhou W, Ramos E, Zhu X, Fisher PM, Kidane ME, Vanderloop BH, Thomas CD, Yan J, Singha U, Chaudhuri M, Nagel MT, Nes WD. Steroidal antibiotics are antimetabolites of Acanthamoeba steroidogenesis with phylogenetic implications. J Lipid Res. 2019 05; 60(5):981-994.
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Kidane ME, Vanderloop BH, Zhou W, Thomas CD, Ramos E, Singha U, Chaudhuri M, Nes WD. Sterol methyltransferase a target for anti-amoeba therapy: towards transition state analog and suicide substrate drug design. J Lipid Res. 2017 12; 58(12):2310-2323.
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Zauberman N, Mutsafi Y, Halevy DB, Shimoni E, Klein E, Xiao C, Sun S, Minsky A. Distinct DNA exit and packaging portals in the virus Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus. PLoS Biol. 2008 May 13; 6(5):e114.
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Albers U, Tiaden A, Spirig T, Al Alam D, Goyert SM, Gangloff SC, Hilbi H. Expression of Legionella pneumophila paralogous lipid A biosynthesis genes under different growth conditions. Microbiology (Reading). 2007 Nov; 153(Pt 11):3817-3829.
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Hassett DJ, Limbach PA, Hennigan RF, Klose KE, Hancock RE, Platt MD, Hunt DF. Bacterial biofilms of importance to medicine and bioterrorism: proteomic techniques to identify novel vaccine components and drug targets. Expert Opin Biol Ther. 2003 Dec; 3(8):1201-7.