Disruption of blood meal-responsive serpins prevents Ixodes scapularis from feeding to repletion

le Bakshi, Mariam, Kim, Tae Kwon, Mulenga, Albert
Foilsithe in Ticks Tick Borne Dis (2018)

Amblyomma americanum ticks utilizes countervailing pro and anti-inflammatory proteins to evade host defense

le Bakshi, Mariam, Kim, Tae Kwon, Porter, Lindsay, Mwangi, Waithaka, Mulenga, Albert
Foilsithe in PLoS Pathog (2019)

Ostertagia ostertagi Mediates Early Host Immune Responses via Macrophage and Toll-Like Receptor Pathways

le Bakshi, Mariam, Hebert, Deborah, Gulbronson, Connor, Bauchan, Gary, Tuo, Wenbin, Zarlenga, Dante
Foilsithe in Infect Immun (2021)

Amblyomma americanum tick saliva insulin-like growth factor binding protein-related protein 1 binds insulin but not insulin-like growth factors

le Radulović, Željko M., Porter, Lindsay M., Kim, Tae K., Bakshi, Mariam, Mulenga, Albert
Foilsithe in Insect Mol Biol (2015)

A blood meal-induced Ixodes scapularis tick saliva serpin inhibits trypsin and thrombin, and interferes with platelet aggregation and blood clotting

le Ibelli, Adriana M.G., Kim, Tae K., Hill, Creston C., Lewis, Lauren A., Bakshi, Mariam, Miller, Stephanie, Porter, Lindsay, Mulenga, Albert
Foilsithe 2014

Conserved Amblyomma americanum tick Serpin19, an inhibitor of blood clotting factors Xa and XIa, trypsin and plasmin, has anti-haemostatic functions

le Kim, Tae Kwon, Tirloni, Lucas, Radulovic, Zeljko, Lewis, Lauren, Bakshi, Mariam, Hill, Creston, Vaz, Itabajara da Silva, Logullo, Carlos, Termignoni, Carlos, Mulenga, Albert
Foilsithe in Int J Parasitol (2015)