Funktion von Oberflächenantigenen frei lebender Protisten in der Kommunikation und Gewährleistung der exklusiven Antigenexpression

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Martin Simon
• Subject Area: Parasitology and Biology of Tropical Infectious Disease Pathogens
• Term: from 2007 to 2010
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 40772134

• Final Report Year: 2009

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• Antigenic Variation in Ciliates: Antigen, Structure, Function, Expression, J. Euk. Microbiol. 54: 1-7. 2007
  Simon M, Schmidt HJ
  
• Phosphatidyl-inositol specific Phospholipases (PI-PLCs) of Paramecium involved in Antigenic Variation. V European Congress of Protistology and XI European Conference on Ciliate Biology , St. Petersburg, 2007
  Klöppel T, Schmidt HJ, Simon M
  
• Phosphatidyl-inositol specific Phospholipases in Paramecium. 26th meeting of the DGP, Salzburg, 2007
  Klöppel T, Simon M, Schmidt HJ
  
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis of variable surface antigen RNA species in Paramecium tetraurelia. 26th meeting of the DGP, Salzburg, 2007
  Marker S,. Simon M, Schmidt H
  
• A cytosolic Phospholipase C (PI-PLC) that is involved in Antigenic Variation in Paramecium tetraurelia. 4th meeting of the GDRE “Paramecium genomics”, Potzberg, 2008
  Klöppel T, Marker S, Simon M
  
• Antisense transcripts in Paramecium: a global strategy of regulation of gene expression?. 27th meeting of the DGP, Warnemünde, 2008
  Marker S, Schloter E, Schmidt H, Simon M
  
• Functional analysis of Phosphatidylinositol specific Phospholipases (PI-PLCs) in Paramecium tetraurelia. 27th meeting of the DGP, Warnemünde, 2008
  Klöppel T, Creutz J, Schmidt H, Simon M
  
• Functional analysis of putative RNA-dependent-RNA-Polymerases (RdRPs) in Paramecium tetraurelia: distinct pathways of dsRNA- and transgene-induced silencing. 4th meeting of the GDRE “Paramecium genomics”, Potzberg, 2008
  Marker S, LeMouël A, Meyer E, Simon M
  
• Oral administration of bacterially expressed VP28dsRNA to protect Penaeus monodon from white spot syndrome virus. Mar. Biotechnol. 10: 242-9. 2008
  Sarathi M, Simon MC, Venkatesan C, Hameed AS
  
• Silencing VP28 gene of white spot syndrome virus of shrimp by bacterially expressed dsRNA. Mar. Biotechnol. 10: 198-206. 2008
  Sarathi M, Simon MC, Ahmed VP, Kumar SR, Hameed AS