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John F. Andersen is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research activity spans multiple interconnected fields, including Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broader disciplines, key subfields of study include Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Insect Science, Immunology, Molecular Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their scientific work primarily focuses on topics such as insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, mosquito-borne diseases and control, neurobiology and insect physiology research, invertebrate immune response mechanisms, the complement system in diseases, malaria research and control, and vector-borne infectious diseases.

Between 2020 and 2022, Andersen contributed significantly to the scientific literature with papers published in notable journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Plasmodium falciparum evades immunity of anopheline mosquitoes by interacting with a Pfs47 midgut receptor, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Structure-switching aptamer sensors for the specific detection of piperaquine and mefloquine, 2021, Science Translational Medicine
  • A sand fly salivary protein acts as a neutrophil chemoattractant, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A Deeper Insight into the Tick Salivary Protein Families under the Light of Alphafold2 and Dali: Introducing the TickSialoFam 2.0 Database, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • A mosquito juvenile hormone binding protein (mJHBP) regulates the activation of innate immune defenses and hemocyte development, 2020, PLoS Pathogens

Frequent publication venues where Andersen's work appears include the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Communications Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Andersen has collaborated with a number of researchers, with the most frequent coauthors being:

  • José M. C. Ribeiro
  • Stephen Lu
  • Jesús G. Valenzuela
  • Patrícia H. Alvarenga
  • Thiago Luiz Alves e Silva

Best Publications

  • TLR11 Activation of Dendritic Cells by a Protozoan Profilin-Like Protein

    Felix Yarovinsky;Dekai Zhang;John F. Andersen;Gerard L. Bannenberg

  • The major component in schistosome eggs responsible for conditioning dendritic cells for Th2 polarization is a T2 ribonuclease (omega-1)

    Svenja Steinfelder;John F. Andersen;Jennifer L. Cannons;Carl G. Feng

  • Ixolaris, a novel recombinant tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) from the salivary gland of the tick, Ixodes scapularis: identification of factor X and factor Xa as scaffolds for the inhibition of factor VIIa/tissue factor complex.

    Ivo M B Francischetti;Jesus G Valenzuela;John F Andersen;Thomas N Mather

  • Molecular mimicry of a CCR5 binding-domain in the microbial activation of dendritic cells

    Julio Aliberti;Jesus G. Valenzuela;Vern B. Carruthers;Sara Hieny

  • Function and evolution of a mosquito salivary protein family.

    Eric Calvo;Ben J. Mans;John F. Andersen;José M.C. Ribeiro

  • Antiinflammatory and Immunosuppressive Activity of Sialostatin L, a Salivary Cystatin from the Tick Ixodes scapularis

    Michalis Kotsyfakis;Anderson Sá-Nunes;Ivo M.B. Francischetti;Thomas N. Mather

  • HDP-a novel heme detoxification protein from the malaria parasite.

    Dewal Jani;Rana Nagarkatti;Wandy Beatty;Ross Angel

  • Human CD300a binds to phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylserine, and modulates the phagocytosis of dead cells.

    Venkateswara R. Simhadri;John F. Andersen;Eric Calvo;Seung-Chul Choi

  • Crystal structures of a nitric oxide transport protein from a blood-sucking insect

    A. Weichsel;J.F. Andersen;D.E. Champagne;F.A. Walker

  • Modulation of host immunity by tick saliva.

    Jan Kotál;Helena Langhansová;Jaroslava Lieskovská;John F. Andersen

  • Nitrophorins and related antihemostatic lipocalins from Rhodnius prolixus and other blood-sucking arthropods.

    William R Montfort;Andrzej Weichsel;John F Andersen

  • Nitric Oxide Binding to the Ferri- and Ferroheme States of Nitrophorin 1, a Reversible NO-Binding Heme Protein from the Saliva of the Blood-Sucking Insect, Rhodnius prolixus

    X. D. Ding;A. Weichsel;J. F. Andersen;T. K. Shokhireva

  • Exploring the sialome of the blood-sucking bug Rhodnius prolixus.

    J.M.C Ribeiro;J Andersen;M.A.C Silva-Neto;V.M Pham

  • The transcriptome of the salivary glands of the female western black-legged tick Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae).

    Ivo M.B. Francischetti;Van My Pham;Ben J. Mans;John F. Andersen

  • A cytochrome P450 terpenoid hydroxylase linked to the suppression of insect juvenile hormone synthesis

    T. D. Sutherland;G. C. Unnithan;J. F. Andersen;P. H. Evans

  • Comparative sialomics between hard and soft ticks: implications for the evolution of blood-feeding behavior.

    Ben J. Mans;John F. Andersen;Ivo M.B. Francischetti;Jesus G. Valenzuela

  • Expression of Cytochrome P450 Genes of the CYP4 Family in Midgut and Fat Body of the Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca sexta

    M.J. Snyder;J.L. Stevens;J.F. Andersen;R. Feyereisen

  • Prostaglandin E2 is a major inhibitor of dendritic cell maturation and function in Ixodes scapularis saliva.

    Anderson Sá-Nunes;André Bafica;André Bafica;David A. Lucas;Thomas P. Conrads

  • Nitric oxide binding to nitrophorin 4 induces complete distal pocket burial.

    Andrzej Weichsel;John F. Andersen;Sue A. Roberts;William R. Montfort

  • Antiinflammatory and Immunosuppressive Activity of Sialostatin L, a Salivary Cystatin from the Tick

    Michalis Kotsyfakis;Ivo M. B. Francischetti;Thomas N. Mather;John F. Andersen

Frequent Co-Authors

José M. C. Ribeiro
José M. C. Ribeiro National Institutes of Health
Ivo M. B. Francischetti
Ivo M. B. Francischetti National Institutes of Health
Jesus G. Valenzuela
Jesus G. Valenzuela National Institutes of Health
William R. Montfort
William R. Montfort University of Arizona
Alan Sher
Alan Sher National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
René Feyereisen
René Feyereisen University of Copenhagen
Hana Golding
Hana Golding US Food and Drug Administration
Julio Aliberti
Julio Aliberti National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Dragana Jankovic
Dragana Jankovic National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Shaden Kamhawi
Shaden Kamhawi National Institutes of Health

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