The Diverse Calpain Family in Trypanosomatidae: Functional Proteins Devoid of Proteolytic Activity?

by Vítor Ennes-Vidal, Marta Helena Branquinha, André Luis Souza dos Santos, Claudia Masini d’Avila-Levy
Published 2021-02-01

Trypsin-like serine proteases in Lutzomyia longipalpis--expression, activity and possible modulation by Leishmania infantum chagasi.

by Erich Loza Telleria, Adriana Pereira Oliveira de Araújo, Nágila Francinete Secundino, Claudia Masini d'Avila-Levy, Yara Maria Traub-Csekö
Published 2010-01-01

Distribution of Blastocystis subtypes isolated from humans from an urban community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

by Carolina Valença Barbosa, Rosemary de Jesus Batista, Ricardo Pereira Igreja, Claudia Masini d’Avila Levy, Heloisa Werneck de Macedo, Helena Lúcia Carneiro Santos
Published 2017-10-01

Serine protease activities in Oxysarcodexia thornax (Walker) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) first instar larva

by Patrícia Cuervo, Camila Mesquita-Rodrigues, Claudia Masini d'Avila Levy, Constança Britto, Fabiano Araújo Pires, Rodrigo Gredilha, Carlos Roberto Alves, Jose Batista de Jesus
Published 2008-08-01

Exploring the environmental diversity of kinetoplastid flagellates in the high-throughput DNA sequencing era

by Claudia Masini d’Avila-Levy, Carolina Boucinha, Alexei Kostygov, Helena Lúcia Carneiro Santos, Karina Alessandra Morelli, Anastasiia Grybchuk-Ieremenko, Linda Duval, Jan Votýpka, Vyacheslav Yurchenko, Philippe Grellier, Julius Lukeš
Published 2015-01-01

Cruzipain promotes Trypanosoma cruzi adhesion to Rhodnius prolixus midgut.

by Lívia Almeida Uehara, Otacílio C Moreira, Ana Carolina Oliveira, Patrícia Azambuja, Ana Paula Cabral Araujo Lima, Constança Britto, André Luis Souza dos Santos, Marta Helena Branquinha, Claudia Masini d'Avila-Levy
Published 2012-01-01

Intestinal parasite infections in a rural community of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): Prevalence and genetic diversity of Blastocystis subtypes.

by Carolina Valença Barbosa, Magali Muniz Barreto, Rosemary de Jesus Andrade, Fernando Sodré, Claudia Masini d'Avila-Levy, José Mauro Peralta, Ricardo Pereira Igreja, Heloisa Werneck de Macedo, Helena Lucia Carneiro Santos
Published 2018-01-01

Calpains of Leishmania braziliensis: genome analysis, differential expression, and functional analysis

by Vítor Ennes-Vidal, Bianca da Silva Vitório, Rubem Figueiredo Sadok Menna-Barreto, André Nóbrega Pitaluga, Silvia Amaral Gonçalves-da-Silva, Marta Helena Branquinha, André Luis Souza Santos, Claudia Masini d’Avila-Levy

Miltefosine induces programmed cell death in Leishmania amazonensis promastigotes

by Fernanda de Aquino Marinho, Keyla Cristiny da Silva Gonçalves, Selma Soares de Oliveira, Ana-Carolina de Siqueira Couto de Oliveira, Maria Bellio, Claudia Masini d'Avila-Levy, André Luis Souza dos Santos, Marta Helena Branquinha
Published 2011-06-01

Cruzipain Activates Latent TGF-β from Host Cells during T. cruzi Invasion.

by Patrícia Mello Ferrão, Claudia Masini d'Avila-Levy, Tania Cremonini Araujo-Jorge, Wim Maurits Degrave, Antônio da Silva Gonçalves, Luciana Ribeiro Garzoni, Ana Paula Lima, Jean Jacques Feige, Sabine Bailly, Leila Mendonça-Lima, Mariana Caldas Waghabi
Published 2015-01-01

Oral effectiveness of PMIC4, a novel hydroxyethylpiperazine analogue, in Leishmania amazonensis

by Mariela Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Edézio Ferreira da Cunha-Júnior, Valter Viana de Andrade-Neto, Larissa Moreira Siqueira, Cláudia Masini d’Avila-Levy, Marcele Moreth, Wilson Cunico, Marcus Vinícius Nora de Souza, Cláudia Regina Brandão Gomes, Eduardo Caio Torres-Santos
Published 2014-12-01

Molecular epidemiology of Blastocystis isolated from animals in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

by Carolina Valença-Barbosa, Teresa Cristina Bergamo do Bomfim, Bernardo Rodrigues Teixeira, Rosana Gentile, Sócrates Fraga da Costa Neto, Bárbara Souza Neil Magalhães, Daniel de Almeida Balthazar, Fabio Alves da Silva, Renata Biot, Claudia Masini d'Avila Levy, Helena Lúcia Carneiro Santos
Published 2019-01-01

Susceptibility of Phytomonas serpens to calpain inhibitors in vitro: interference on the proliferation, ultrastructure, cysteine peptidase expression and interaction with the inver...

by Simone Santiago Carvalho de Oliveira, Diego de Souza Gonçalves, Aline dos Santos Garcia-Gomes, Inês Correa Gonçalves, Sergio Henrique Seabra, Rubem Figueiredo Menna-Barreto, Angela Hampshire de Carvalho Santos Lopes, Claudia Masini D’Avila-Levy, André Luis Souza dos Santos, Marta Helena Branquinha