Dr. Zdenek Franta

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsPathology,Medical Microbiology and Mycology, Hygiene, Molecular Infection Biology
Keywordsmaggot therapy, Lucilia sericata, aspartic peptidase, biosurgery

Current contact address

CountryCzech Republic
CityCeske Budejovice
InstitutionUniversity of South Bohemia
InstituteFaculty of Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Andreas VilcinskasProjektgruppe für Bio-Ressourcen, Fraunhofer-Institut für Molekularbiologie und Angewandte Ökologie (IME), Gießen
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2014

Programme(s)

2013Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2016Anne-Kathrin Pöppel, Mareike Kahl, Andre Baumann, Jochen Wiesner, Anke Gökçen, Annika Beckert, Klaus T. Preissner, Andreas Vilcinskas, Zden ek Franta: A Jonah-like chymotrypsin from the therapeutic maggot Lucilia sericata plays a role in wound debridement and coagulation. In: Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2016, 138-147
2016Zdenek Franta, Heiko Vogel, Rüdiger Lehmann, Oliver Rupp, Alexander Goesmann, Andreas Vilcinskas: Next Generation Sequencing Identifies Five Major Classes of Potentially Therapeutic Enzymes Secreted by Lucilia sericata Medical Maggots. In: BioMed Research International, 2016,
2015Andre Baumann, Rüdiger Lehmann, Annika Beckert, Andreas Vilcinskas, Zdeněk Franta: Selection and evaluation of tissue specific reference genes in Lucilia sericata during an immune challenge. In: PLoS One, 2015, 1-16
2014MIray Tonk, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, James J Valdés, Ryan OM Rego, Tereza Chrudimská, Martin Strnad, Radek Šíma, Lesley Bell-Sakiy, Zdeněk Franta, Andreas Vilcinskas, Libor Grubhoffer, Mohammad Rahnamaeian: Defensins from the tick Ixodes scapularis are effective against phytopathogenic fungi and the human bacterial pathogen Listeria grayi. In: Parasites & Vectors, 2014,
2013Daniel Sojka, Zdenek Franta, Martin Horn, Conor R Caffrey, Michael Mares, Petr Kopacek: New insights into the machinery of blood digestion by ticks. In: Trends in Parasitology, 2013, 276-285
2012Daniel Sojka, Zdenek Franta, Helena Frantova, Pavla Bartosova, Martin Horn, Jana Vachova, Anthony J O'Donoghue, Alegra A Eroy-Reveles, Charles S Craik, Giselle M Knudsen, Conor R Caffrey, James H McKerrow, Michael Mares, Petr Kopacek: Characterization of Gut-associated Cathepsin D Hemoglobinase from Tick Ixodes ricinus (IrCD1). In: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2012, 21152- 21163