• Amblyomma americanum serpin 27 (AAS27) is a tick salivary anti-inflammatory protein secreted into the host during feeding 

      Tirloni, Lucas; Kim, Tae Kwon; Oliveira, Markus Berger; Termignoni, Carlos; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Mulenga, Albert (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
      Ticks successfully feed and transmit pathogens by injecting pharmacological compounds in saliva to thwart host defenses. We have previously used LC-MS/MS to identify proteins that are present in saliva of unfed Amblyomma ...
    • Changes in saliva protein profile throughout Rhipicephalus microplus blood feeding 

      Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Lu, Stephen; Pinto, Antonio Frederico Michel; Diedrich, Jolene K.; Yates III, John R.; Mulenga, Albert; Termignoni, Carlos; Ribeiro, José Marcos Chaves; Tirloni, Lucas (2024) [Artigo de periódico]
      Background: When feeding on a vertebrate host, ticks secrete saliva, which is a complex mixture of proteins, lipids, and other molecules. Tick saliva assists the vector in modulating host hemostasis, immunity, and tissue ...
    • Editorial : The role of saliva in arthropod-host-pathogen relationships 

      Tirloni, Lucas; Calvo, Eric; Konnai, Satoru; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva (2021) [Texto de apresentação/encerramento]
    • Host immune responses to salivary components : a critical facet of tick-host interactions 

      Ali, Abid; Zeb, Ismail; Alouffi, Abdulaziz; Zahid, Hafsa; Almutairi, Mashal M.; Alshammari, Fahdah Ayed; Alrouji, Mohammed; Termignoni, Carlos; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Tanaka, Tetsuya (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      Tick sialome is comprised of a rich cocktail of bioactive molecules that function as a tool to disarm host immunity, assist blood-feeding, and play a vibrant role in pathogen transmission. The adaptation of the tick’s ...
    • Tick saliva‑induced programmed death‑1 and PD‑ligand 1 and its related host immunosuppression 

      Sajiki, Yamato; Konnai, Satoru; Ikenaka, Yoshinori; Gulay, Kevin Christian Montecillo; Kobayashi, Atsushi; Parizi, Luis Fernando; João, Benvindo Capela; Watari, Kei; Fujisawa, Sotaro; Okagawa, Tomohiro; Maekawa, Naoya; Logullo, Carlos; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Murata, Shiro; Ohashi, Kazuhiko (2021) [Artigo de periódico]
      The tick Rhipicephalus microplus is a harmful parasite of cattle that causes considerable economic losses to the cattle breeding industry. Although R. microplus saliva (Rm-saliva) contains several immunosuppressants, any ...
    • Time-resolved proteomic profile of Amblyomma americanum tick saliva during feeding 

      Kim, Tae Kwon; Tirloni, Lucas; Pinto, Antonio Frederico Michel; Diedrich, Jolene K.; Moresco, James; Yates III, John R.; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Mulenga, Albert (2020) [Artigo de periódico]
      Amblyomma americanum ticks transmit more than a third of human tick-borne disease (TBD) agents in the United States. Tick saliva proteins are critical to success of ticks as vectors of TBD agents, and thus might serve as ...