Title:Contribution of Transcriptome to Elucidate the Biology of Plasmodium
spp
Volume: 22
Issue: 3
Author(s): Kleber Simônio Parreira, Pedro Scarpelli, Wânia Rezende Lima*Celia R.S. Garcia*
Affiliation:
- Departamento de Medicina, Instituto de Biotecnologia-Universidade Federal de Catalão, Catalão, Goiás, Brazil
- Departamento
de Análises Clínicas e Toxicológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade de São Paulo -
USP, São Paulo, Brazil
Keywords:
Malaria, Plasmodium spp, Biologic process, RNA-Seq, Microarray, Single-cell RNA, Signaling pathway.
Abstract: The present review discusses some of the new technologies that have been applied to elucidate
how Plasmodium spp escape from the immune system and subvert the host physiology to
orchestrate the regulation of its biological pathways. Our manuscript describes how techniques
such as microarray approaches, RNA-Seq, and single-cell RNA sequencing have contributed to the
discovery of transcripts and changed the concept of gene expression regulation in closely related
malaria parasite species. Moreover, the text highlights the contributions of high-throughput RNA
sequencing for the current knowledge of malaria parasite biology, physiology, vaccine target, and
the revelation of new players in parasite signaling.