Protozoan parasites of bivalve molluscs: literature follows culture.

by José A Fernández Robledo, Gerardo R Vasta, Nicholas R Record
Published 2014-01-01

Antimicrobial Peptides Are Expressed during Early Development of Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Are Inducible by Immune Challenge

by Elisabetta Caccia, Maria Agnello, Marcello Ceci, Patricia Strickler Dinglasan, Gerardo R. Vasta, Nicla Romano
Published 2017-11-01

Lacking catalase, a protistan parasite draws on its photosynthetic ancestry to complete an antioxidant repertoire with ascorbate peroxidase

by Eric J. Schott, Santiago Di Lella, Tsvetan R. Bachvaroff, L. Mario Amzel, Gerardo R. Vasta
Published 2019-07-01

Binding of a C-type lectin's coiled-coil domain to the Domeless receptor directly activates the JAK/STAT pathway in the shrimp immune response to bacterial infection.

by Jie-Jie Sun, Jiang-Feng Lan, Xiao-Fan Zhao, Gerardo R Vasta, Jin-Xing Wang
Published 2017-09-01

Pregnancy Galectinology: Insights Into a Complex Network of Glycan Binding Proteins

by Sandra M. Blois, Sandra M. Blois, Gabriela Dveksler, Gerardo R. Vasta, Nancy Freitag, Véronique Blanchard, Gabriela Barrientos
Published 2019-05-01

F-Type Lectins: A Highly Diversified Family of Fucose-Binding Proteins with a Unique Sequence Motif and Structural Fold, Involved in Self/Non-Self-Recognition

by Gerardo R. Vasta, L. Mario Amzel, Mario A. Bianchet, Mario A. Bianchet, Matteo Cammarata, Chiguang Feng, Keiko Saito
Published 2017-11-01

Humanized HLA-DR4 mice fed with the protozoan pathogen of oysters Perkinsus marinus (Dermo) do not develop noticeable pathology but elicit systemic immunity.

by Wathsala Wijayalath, Sai Majji, Yuliya Kleschenko, Luis Pow-Sang, Teodor D Brumeanu, Eileen Franke Villasante, Gerardo R Vasta, José-Antonio Fernández-Robledo, Sofia Casares
Published 2014-01-01

Galectins as self/non-self recognition receptors in innate and adaptive immunity: An unresolved paradox

by Gerardo R. Vasta, Hafiz eAhmed, Mihai eNita-Lazar, Aditi eBanerjee, Marta ePasek, Surekha eShridhar, Surekha eShridhar, Prasun eGuha, José A Fernández-Robledo
Published 2012-07-01

Biochemical Characterization of Oyster and Clam Galectins: Selective Recognition of Carbohydrate Ligands on Host Hemocytes and Perkinsus Parasites

by Gerardo R. Vasta, Chiguang Feng, Satoshi Tasumi, Kelsey Abernathy, Mario A. Bianchet, Iain B. H. Wilson, Katharina Paschinger, Lai-Xi Wang, Muddasar Iqbal, Anita Ghosh, Mohammed N. Amin, Brina Smith, Brina Smith, Sean Brown, Sean Brown, Aren Vista, Aren Vista
Published 2020-02-01