Paulo F. P. Pimenta

Stage-Specific Adhesion of <i>Leishmania</i> Promastigotes to the Sandfly Midgut

Paulo F. P. Pimenta, Salvatore J. Turco, Malcolm J. McConville et al. · Science · 1992 · 241 citations

Biology, Midgut Attachment, Biochemistry +13

Evidence that the vectorial competence of phlebotomine sand flies for different species of Leishmania is controlled by structural polymorphisms in the surface lipophosphoglycan.

Paulo F. P. Pimenta, Elvira M. Saraiva, Edgar Rowton et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1994 · 212 citations · Full text

Biology, Phlebotomine Vectors, Parasitic Protozoa +15

Stage-specific binding of Leishmania donovani to the sand fly vector midgut is regulated by conformational changes in the abundant surface lipophosphoglycan.

David L. Sacks, Paulo F. P. Pimenta, Malcolm J. McConville et al. · The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 1995 · 178 citations · Full text

Proteinlipid Interaction, Glycobiology, Molecular Biology +17

The comparative fine structure and surface glycoconjugate expression of three life stages of Leishmania major

Paulo F. P. Pimenta, Elvira M. Saraiva, David L. Sacks · Experimental Parasitology · 1991 · 126 citations

Life Stages, Biochemistry, Natural Sciences +6

Leishmania chagasi: lipophosphoglycan characterization and binding to the midgut of the sand fly vector Lutzomyia longipalpis

Rodrigo Pedro Soares, Maria Eduarda Figueiredo Macedo, Catherine Ropert et al. · Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology · 2002 · 114 citations

Biology, Parasitic Disease, Biochemistry +10