Jayhun Lee Lab
@jleelabschisto.bsky.social
J. Lee Lab @UTHealthHouston @McGovernMed @UTHealthMMG @MIDatGSBS Schistosome biology and its role in parasite survival and immune evasion.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Happy to share our recent preprint, hopefully first of many to come! We discover a schistosome digestive gland factor critical for lysing ingested host blood cells and interacting with proteins that play important roles in host immune defense. Looking forward to the peer reviews!
Schistosome esophageal gland factor MEG-8.2 drives host cell lysis and interacts with host immune proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623777v1
Schistosome esophageal gland factor MEG-8.2 drives host cell lysis and interacts with host immune proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623777v1
Schistosomes are blood flukes that ingest large amounts of host blood during their intra-mammalian s
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November 18, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Happy to share our recent preprint, hopefully first of many to come! We discover a schistosome digestive gland factor critical for lysing ingested host blood cells and interacting with proteins that play important roles in host immune defense. Looking forward to the peer reviews!