Artur Scherf - Selected publications#

Selected publications list
(H-index: 40 (web of science), > 4500 citations

1. Koenen, M., Scherf, A., Mercereau-Puijalon, O., Langsley, G., Sibilli, L., Dubois, P., Pereira da Silva, L., and Müller-Hill, B. (1984). Human antisera detect a Plasmodium falciparum genomic clone encoding a nonapeptide repeat. Nature 311, 382-384.

2. Scherf, A., Hernandez-Rivas, R., Buffet, P., Bottius, E., Benatar, C., Pouvelle, B., Gysin J. and Lanzer, M. (1998) Antigenic variation in malaria: In situ switching, relaxed and mutually exclusive transcription of var genes during intra-erythrocytic development in Plasmodium falciparum. EMBO J. 17, 5418-5426

3. Buffet, P. ; Gamain, B. ; Scheidig, C. ; Baruch, D. ; Smith, J. ; Hernandez-Rivas, R. ; Pouvelle, B. ; Oishi, S. ; Fujii, N. ; Fusai, T. ; Parzy, D. ; Miller, L.H. ; Gysin, J. ; and Scherf, A. (1999) P. falciparum domain mediating adhesion to chondroitin sulfate A: A receptor for human placental infection PNAS 96, 12743-12748

4. Pouvelle, B., Buffet, P.A., Lépolard, C., Scherf, A., Gysin J. (2000) Cytoadhesion of Plasmodium falciparum ring-stage-infected erythrocytes. Nature Medicine 6, 1264-1268

5. Freitas-Junior, L.H., Bottius, E., Pirrit, L.A., Deitsch, K., Scheidig, C., Guinet, F., Nehrbass, U., Wellems, T. and Scherf, A. (2000) Frequent ectopic recombination of virulence factor genes in telomeric chromosome clusters of P. falciparum. Nature 407, 1018-1022

6. Freitas-Junior, L. H., Hernandez-Rivas, R., Ralph, S. A., Montiel-Condado, D., Ruvalcaba-Salazar, O. K., Rojas-Meza, A. P., Mâncio-Silva, L., Leal-Silvestre, R. J., Shorte, S., and Scherf, A. (2005) Telomeric heterochromatin propagation and histone acetylation control mutually exclusive expression of antigenic variation genes in malaria parasites. Cell 121:25-36

7. Manoj T. Duraisingh, Till S. Voss, Allison J. Marty, Michael F. Duffy, Robert T. Good, Jennifer K. Thompson, Lucio H. Freitas-Junior, Artur Scherf, Brendan S. Crabb and Alan F. Cowman. (2005) Perinuclear silencing and locus repositioning are linked to regulation of virulence genes in Plasmodium falciparum. Cell 121:13-24

8. Scherf, A., Rivière, L., Lopez-Rubio, JJ. (2008) SnapShot: Var gene expression in the malaria parasite. Cell 11;134(1):190

9. Lopez-Rubio, JJ., Mancio-Silva, L., Scherf, A. (2009) Perinuclear epigenetic factories control phenotypic plasticity and virulence in malaria parasites. Cell Host & Microbe 19;5(2):179-90.

10. Zhang Q, Huang Y, Zhang Y, Fang X, Claes A, Duchateau M, Namane A, Lopez-Rubio JJ, Pan W, Scherf A. A critical role of perinuclear filamentous actin in spatial repositioning and mutually exclusive expression of virulence genes in malaria parasites. Cell Host & Microbe. 2011 Nov 17;10(5):451-63.