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Stephen L. Hajduk is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields including Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a notable emphasis on Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Oncology.

The scientist's main areas of study revolve around Trypanosoma species research and implications, research on Leishmaniasis studies, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, biochemical and molecular research, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and immune cell function and interaction.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stephen L. Hajduk include Iwona Baranowska, Agnieszka Graczyk-Jarzynka, Marta Krawczyk, Marta Kłopotowska, and Monika Granica.

Stephen L. Hajduk has published extensively in various scientific journals, including the following recent papers:

  • Lexis and Grammar of Mitochondrial RNA Processing in Trypanosomes, 2020, Trends in Parasitology
  • Turnover of Variant Surface Glycoprotein in Trypanosoma brucei Is a Bimodal Process, 2021, mBio
  • Ammonia Suppresses the Antitumor Activity of Natural Killer Cells and T Cells by Decreasing Mature Perforin, 2025, Cancer Research
  • Hypothesis-generating proteome perturbation to identify NEU-4438 and acoziborole modes of action in the African Trypanosome, 2022, iScience
  • Mono-allelic epigenetic regulation of polycistronic transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II in Trypanosoma brucei, 2024, mBio

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • mBio
  • Trends in Parasitology
  • Cancer Research
  • iScience
  • Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy

Best Publications

  • The Molecular Biology of Trypanosomes

    Paul T. Englund;Stephen L. Hajduk;Joan C Marini

  • Extracellular Vesicles from Trypanosoma brucei Mediate Virulence Factor Transfer and Cause Host Anemia

    Anthony J. Szempruch;Steven E. Sykes;Rudo Kieft;Lauren Dennison

  • The mitochondrial tRNAs of Trypanosoma brucei are nuclear encoded.

    K Hancock;S L Hajduk

  • Killing of trypanosomes by the human haptoglobin-related protein.

    Andrea B. Smith;Jeffrey D. Esko;Stephen L. Hajduk

  • Lysis of Trypanosoma brucei by a toxic subspecies of human high density lipoprotein.

    S. L. Hajduk;D. R. Moore;Jayarama Vasudevacharya;H. Siqueira

  • Organization of minicircle genes for guide RNAs in trypanosoma brucei

    Victoria W. Pollard;Susan P. Rohrer;Emil F. Michelotti;Kathy Hancock

  • Native mRNA editing complexes from Trypanosoma brucei mitochondria.

    Victoria W. Pollard;Michael E. Harris;Stephen L. Hajduk

  • Human high density lipoproteins are platforms for the assembly of multi-component innate immune complexes

    April M. Shiflett;Joseph R. Bishop;Amit K. Pahwa;Stephen L. Hajduk

  • Developmental regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei.

    Jeffrey W. Priest;Stephen L. Hajduk

  • Addition of uridines to edited RNAs in trypanosome mitochondria occurs independently of transcription.

    M E Harris;D R Moore;S L Hajduk

  • Editing machines: the complexities of trypanosome RNA editing.

    Susan Madison-Antenucci;Jayleen Grams;Stephen L Hajduk

  • Endocytosis of a cytotoxic human high density lipoprotein results in disruption of acidic intracellular vesicles and subsequent killing of african trypanosomes

    K M Hager;M A Pierce;D R Moore;E M Tytler

  • Identification of candidate mitochondrial RNA editing ligases from Trypanosoma brucei

    Michael T. McMANUS;Masako Shimamura;Jayleen Grams;Stephen L. Hajduk

  • RNA Ligase and Its Involvement in Guide RNA/mRNA Chimera Formation EVIDENCE FOR A CLEAVAGE-LIGATION MECHANISM OF TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI mRNA EDITING

    Robert Sabatini;Stephen L. Hajduk

  • RNA editing in kinetoplastid mitochondria.

    Stephen L. Hajduk;Michael E. Harris;Victoria W. Pollard

  • Haptoglobin-related Protein Mediates Trypanosome Lytic Factor Binding to Trypanosomes

    Jerome Drain;Joseph R. Bishop;Stephen L. Hajduk

  • Mechanism of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (group 1) resistance to human trypanosome lytic factor

    Rudo Kieft;Paul Capewell;C. Michael R. Turner;Nicola J. Veitch

  • Sending a message: extracellular vesicles of pathogenic protozoan parasites

    Anthony J. Szempruch;Lauren Dennison;Rudo Kieft;John M. Harrington

  • Developmental regulation of trypanosome mitochondrial gene expression.

    E F Michelotti;S L Hajduk

  • RNA editing in kinetoplastids.

    Stephen Hajduk;Torsten Ochsenreiter

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey D. Esko
Jeffrey D. Esko University of California, San Diego
Michael T. McManus
Michael T. McManus University of California, San Francisco
Freya J. I. Fowkes
Freya J. I. Fowkes Burnet Institute
Philippe Deloron
Philippe Deloron Université Paris Cité
Barbara Sollner-Webb
Barbara Sollner-Webb Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Paul T. Englund
Paul T. Englund Johns Hopkins University
Joan C. Marini
Joan C. Marini National Institutes of Health
Larry Simpson
Larry Simpson University of California, Los Angeles
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences
Matthew Berriman
Matthew Berriman University of Glasgow

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