Asaia related

• Bacteria of the Genus Asaia: A Potential Paratransgenic Weapon Against Malaria

• Bacteria of the genus Asaia stably associate with Anopheles stephensi, an Asian malarial mosquito vector isolation of Asaia from mosquitoes and expression of GFP

• Paternal transmission of symbiotic bacteria in malaria vectors Asaia transmission and stable Asaia mCherry strain

• Cloning of Escherichia coli lacZ and lacY Genes and Their Expression in Gluconobacter oxydans and Acetobacter liquefaciens Asaia plasmid

Blocking P. falciparum transmission

• Bacteria expressing single-chain immunotoxin inhibit malaria parasite development in mosquitoes Immunotoxin against malaria parasite, composed of Shiva-1 and mouse single-chain antibody fragment against Pbs21.
• A single-chain antibody fragment specific for the Plasmodium berghei ookinete protein Pbs21 confers transmission blockade in the mosquito midgut 13.1 scFv single-chain antibody fragment against ookinete protein Pbs21
• In vitro cytocidal effect of novel lytic peptides on Plasmodium falciparum and Trypanosoma cruzi Shiva-1
• Ajay K. Saxena, Yimin Wu, and David N. Garboczi, Plasmodium P25 and P28 Surface Proteins: Potential Transmission-Blocking Vaccines, Eukaryot. Cell, Aug 2007; 6: 1260 - 1265. Using antibodies to bind both ookinete surface proteins P25 and P28 could prevent the epithelial invasion.

Ideas

• Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts