Author:Gong, X; Srivastava, V; Naicker, Previn; Khan, A; Ahmad, ADate:Mar 2023Candida parapsilosis poses huge treatment challenges in the clinical settings of South Africa, and often causes infections among immunocompromised patients and underweight neonates. Cell wall proteins have been known to play vital roles in ...Read more
Author:Gong, X; Srivastava, V; Naicker, Previn; Khan, A; Ahmad, ADate:Mar 2023Candida parapsilosis poses huge treatment challenges in the clinical settings of South Africa, and often causes infections among immunocompromised patients and underweight neonates. Cell wall proteins have been known to play vital roles in ...Read more
Author:Tumba, NL; Naicker, Previn; Stoychev, Stoyan H; Killick, MA; Owen, GR; Papathanasopoulos, MADate:Jul 2022The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein (Env) mediates host cell infection by binding to the cellular receptor CD4. Recombinant Env bound to CD4 has been explored for its potential as an HIV vaccine immunogen as ...Read more
Author:Baichan, P; Naicker, Previn; Devar, J; Smith, M; Nweke, EEDate:Jan 2023Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is the most frequent biliary tract cancer (including cancers of the intra- and extrahepatic biliary tree). Like many biliary tract carcinomas, GBC is identified by late diagnosis, poor prognosis, and ineffective ...Read more
Author:Baichan, P; Naicker, Previn; Augustine, TN; Smith, M; Candy, G; Devar, J; Nweke, EEDate:Mar 2023Background Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is a lethal cancer with a poor prognosis. The lack of specifc and sensitive biomarkers results in delayed diagnosis with most patients presenting at late stages of the disease. Furthermore, there is little ...Read more
Author:Koenig, C; Martinez-Val, A; Naicker, Previn; Stoychev, S; Jordaan, J; Olsen, JVDate:Sep 2023Tandem mass tags data-dependent acquisition (TMT-DDA) as well as data-independent acquisition-based label-free quantification (LFQ-DIA) have become the leading workflows to achieve deep proteome and phosphoproteome profiles. We present a ...Read more
Author:Kabwe, KP; Nsibande, SA; Lemmer, Yolandy; Pilcher, LA; Forbes, PBCDate:Nov 2021This work explores the potential use of cadmium-based quantum dots (QDs) coupled to mycolic acids (MAs) as a fluorescent probe to detect anti-MA antibodies which are biomarkers for tuberculosis (TB). The use of free MAs as antigens for the ...Read more
Author:Govender, Ireshyn S; Mokoena, Rethabile; Stoychev, Stoyan; Naicker, PrevinDate:Sep 2023Urine provides a diverse source of information related to a patient’s health status and is ideal for clinical proteomics due to its ease of collection. To date, most methods for the preparation of urine samples lack the throughput required ...Read more