Publications

Research Article

Otsuki H, Kaneko O, Thongkukiatkul A, Tachibana M, Iriko H, Takeo S, Tsuboi T, Torii M. Single amino acid substitution in Plasmodium yoelii erythrocyte ligand determines its localization and controls parasite virulence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(17):7167-72 (2009/04) [Abstract]

Iriko H, Jin L, Kaneko O, Takeo S, Han T-T, Tachibana M, Otsuki H, Torii M, Tsuboi T, A small-scale systematic analysis of alternative splicing in Plasmodium falciparum. Parasitol Int 58:196-9 (2009/06) [Abstract]

Cao J, Kaneko O, Thongkukiatkul A, Tachibana M, Otsuki H, Gao Q, Tsuboi T, Torii M. Rhoptry neck protein RON2 forms a complex with microneme protein AMA1 in Plasmodium falciparum merozoites. Parasitol Int 58:29-35 (2009) [Abstract]

Mphande FA, Ribacke U, Kaneko O, Kironde F, Winter G, Wahlgren M.  SURFIN4.1, a schizont-merozoite associated protein in the SURFIN family of Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria J 7:116 (2008) [Abstract] [Open Access]

Iriko H, Kaneko O, Otsuki H, Tsuboi T, Su XZ, Tanabe K, Torii M.  Diversity and evolution of the rhoph1/clag multigene family of Plasmodium falciparum. Mol Biochem Parasitol158(1):11-21 (2008) [Abstract]

Cortés A, Carret C, Kaneko O, Yim-Lim BYS, Ivens A, Holder AA.  Epigenetic silencing of Plasmodium falciparum genes linked to erythrocyte invasion. PLoS Pathog 3:e107 (2007) [Abstract] [Open Access]

Moll K, Chene A, Ribacke U, Kaneko O, Nilsson S, Winter G, Haeggstrom M, Pan W, Berzins K, Wahlgren M, Chen Q. A novel DBL-domain of the P. falciparum 332 molecule involved in erythrocyte adhesion. PLoS ONE 2:e477 (2007) [Abstract] [Open Access]

Ghoneim A, Kaneko O, Tsuboi T, Torii M.  The Plasmodium falciparum RhopH2 promoter and first 24 amino acids are sufficient to target proteins to the rhoptries. Parasitol Int. 56(1):31-43 (2007/03) [Abstract]

Kaneko O, Yim-Lim BYS, Iriko H, Ling IT, Otsuki H, Grainger M, Tsuboi T, Adams JH, Mattei D, Holder AA, Torii M. Apical expression of three RhopH1/Clag proteins as components of the Plasmodium falciparum RhopH complex. Mol Biochem Parasitol 143(1):20-28 (2005/09).
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Winter G, Kawai S, Haeggstrom M, Kaneko O, von Euler A, Kawazu S, Palm D, Fernandez V, Wahlgren M. SURFIN is a polymorphic antigen expressed on Plasmodium falciparum merozoites and infected erythrocytes. J Exp Med 201(11):1853-63 (2005/06).
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Rungruang T, Kaneko O, Murakami Y, Tsuboi T, Hamamoto H, Akimitsu N, Sekimizu K, Kinoshita T, Torii M. Erythrocyte surface glycosylphosphatidyl inositol anchored receptor for the malaria parasite. Mol Biochem Parasitol 140(1):13-21 (2005).
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Preiser P, Renia L, Singh N, Balu B, Jarra W, Voza T, Kaneko O, Blair P, Torii M, Landau I, Adams JH. Antibodies against MAEBL ligand domains M1 and M2 inhibit sporozoite development in vitro.  Infect Immun 72(6):3604–8 (2004) [Abstract] [Full Text]

 Ling IT, Florens L, Dluzewski AR, Kaneko O, Grainger M, Yim- Lim BYS, Tsuboi T, Hopkins JM 3rd, Johnson JR, Torii M, Bannister LH, Yates JR, Holder AA and Mattei D. The Plasmodium falciparum clag9 gene encodes a rhoptry protein that is transferred to the host erythrocyte upon invasion. Mol Microbiol 52(1):107-18 (2004) [Abstract]

Mayer DC, Mu JB, Kaneko O, Duan J, Su XZ, Miller LH. Polymorphism in the Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte-binding ligand JESEBL/EBA-181 alters its receptor specificity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 101: 2518-23 (2004)  [Abstract] [Full Text]

Ling IT, Kaneko O, Narum D, Tsuboi T, Howell S , Taylor HM, Scott-Finnigan TJ, Torii M, Holder AA. Characterisation of the rhoph2 gene of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium yoelii. Mol Biochem Parasitol 127(1):47-57 (2003).  [Abstract]

Michon P, Stevens JR, Kaneko O, Adams JH. Evolutionary relationships of conserved cysteine-rich motifs in adhesive molecules of malaria parasites. Mol Biol Evol 19(7):1128-42 (2002). [Abstract] [Full Text]

Kaneko O, Mu J, Tsuboi T, Su X, Torii M. Gene structure and expression of a Plasmodium falciparum 220-kilodalton protein homologous to the Plasmodium vivax reticulocyte binding proteins. Mol Biochem Parasitol 121:275-8 (2002). [No Abstract]

Review Article

Culleton R, Kaneko O. Erythrocyte binding ligands in malaria parasites: Intracellular trafficking and parasite virulence. Acta Tropica 114(3):131-7 (2010/06) [Abstract]

Udomsangpetch R, Kaneko O, Chotivanich K, Sattabongkot J. Cultivation of Plasmodium vivax. Trends Parasitol 24(2):85-8. (2008) [Abstract]

Kaneko O.  Erythrocyte invasion: vocabulary and grammar of the Plasmodium rhoptry. Parasitol Int 56(4):255-62 (2007). [Abstract]

Adams JH, Kaneko O, Blair PL, Peterson DS. An Expanding ebl Family of Plasmodium falciparum.. Trends Parasitol 17(6): 297-9(2001) [No Abstract]

Tanabe K, Sakihama N, Kaneko O, Saito-Ito A, Kimura M. A PCR method for molecular epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum Msp-1. Tokai J Exp Clin Med 23(6): 375-81 (1998) [Abstract]

Ferreira MU, Kaneko O, Kimura M, Liu Q, Kawamoto F, Tanabe K. Allelic diversity at the merozoite surface protein-1 locus in natural Plasmodium falciparum populations: a brief overview.  Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 93(5): 631-638 (1998) [Abstract] [Full Text]

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