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Berry, C., Hindley, J. and Oei, C. (1991)
The Bacillus sphaericus toxins and their potential for biotechnological development. In: Biotechnology for biological control of pests and vectors. (K. Maramorosch, Ed.), pp35-51, CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton.

Berry, C., Dame, J.B., Dunn, B.M., and Kay, J. (1995)
Aspartic proteinases from the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
In: Aspartic Proteinases: Structure, Function, Biology and Biomedical Implications. (K. Takahashi, Ed.), pp511-518, Plenum Press, New York.

Kay, J., Tyas, L., Humphreys, M.J., Hill, J., Dunn, B.M. and Berry, C. (1995)
Aspartic proteinases from parasites.
In: Intracellular protein catabolism (Bond, J.S., and Suzuki, K., Eds.), pp247-250, Plenum Press, New York.

Berry, C. (1997)
New targets for antimalarial therapy: the plasmepsins, malaria parasite aspartic proteinases.
Biochem. Education 25: 191-194.  

Moon, R.P., Bur, D., Loetscher, H., D'Arcy, A., Tyas, L., Oefner, C., Grueninger-Leitch, F., Mona, D., Rupp, K., Dorn, A., Matile, H., Certa, U., Berry, C., Kay, J. and Ridley, R.G. (1998)
Studies on plasmepsins I and II from the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum and their exploitation as drug targets.
In: Structure and Function of Aspartic Proteinases: Retroviral and Cellular Enzymes. (James M.N.G., Ed.), pp397-406, Plenum Press, New York.

Tyas, L., Moon, R.P., Loetscher, H., Dunn, B.M., Kay, J., Ridley, R.G. and Berry, C. (1998)
Plasmepsins I and II from the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
In: Structure and Function of Aspartic Proteinases: Retroviral and Cellular Enzymes. (James M.N.G., Ed.), pp 407-411, Plenum Press, New York.

Ridley, R.G., Moon, R.P., Bur, D., Certa, U., Loetscher, H., D'Arcy, A., Oefner, C., Matile, H., Tyas, L., Kay, J. and Berry, C. (1998)
Plasmepsin I and plasmepsin II as antimalarial drug targets.
In: Structure and Function of Aspartic Proteinases: Retroviral and Cellular Enzymes. (James M.N.G., Ed.), p 413, Plenum Press, New York.

Humphreys, M.J. and Berry, C. (1998)
Aspartic proteinases from the animal parasites Plasmodium berghei and Eimeria tenella.
In: Structure and Function of Aspartic Proteinases: Retroviral and Cellular Enzymes. (James M.N.G., Ed.), p 416, Plenum Press, New York.

Matharu, P.J., Certa, U., Moon, R., Bur, D., Humphreys, M.J., Kay, J. and Berry, C. (1998)
A proteinase from Plasmodium falciparum with a novel catalytic apparatus.
In: Structure and Function of Aspartic Proteinases: Retroviral and Cellular Enzymes. (James M.N.G., Ed.), p 418, Plenum Press, New York.

Girdwood, K., Perler, F.B. and Berry, C. (1998)
Putative aspartic proteinase inhibitors from parasitic nematodes.
In: Structure and Function of Aspartic Proteinases: Retroviral and Cellular Enzymes. (James M.N.G., Ed.), p 419, Plenum Press, New York.

Berry, C. (1999)
Proteases as drug targets for the treatment of malaria.
In: Proteases of Infectious Agents. (Dunn, B.M., Ed.), pp165-188. Academic Press, San Diego, USA.

Delécluse, A., Juárez-Pérez, V. and Berry, C. (2000)
Vector active toxins: structure and diversity.
In: Entomopathogenic Bacteria: From Laboratory to Field Application. (Charles, J.-F., Delécluse, A. and Nielsen-LeRoux, C., Eds.), pp101-126. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Berry, C. (2000)
Plasmepsins as antimalarial targets.
Curr. Opinion Drug Disc. Dev. 3: 624-629.

Hindley, J. and Berry, C. (1987)
Identification, cloning and sequence analysis of the Bacillus sphaericus 1593 41.9kD larvicidal toxin gene.
Mol. Microbiol. 1: 187-194.

Berry, C. and Hindley, J. (1987)
Bacillus sphaericus strain 2362: identification and nucleotide sequence of the 41.9kDa toxin gene.
Nucl. Acids Res. 15: 5891.

Hindley, J. and Berry, C. (1988)
Bacillus sphaericus strain 2297: nucleotide sequence of 41.9kDa toxin gene.
Nucl. Acids Res. 16: 4168.

Berry, C., Jackson-Yap, J., Oei, C. and Hindley, J. (1989)
Nucleotide sequence of two toxin genes from Bacillus sphaericus IAB59: sequence comparisons between five highly toxinogenic strains.
Nucl. Acids Res. 17: 7516.

Oei, C., Hindley, J. and Berry, C. (1990)
An analysis of the genes encoding the 51.4- and 41.9-kDa toxins of Bacillus sphaericus 2297 by deletion mutagenesis: the construction of fusion proteins.
FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 72: 265-274.

Davidson, E.W., Oei, C., Meyer, M., Bieber, A.L., Hindley, J. and Berry, C. (1990)
Interaction of the Bacillus sphaericus mosquito larvicidal proteins.
Can. J. Microbiol. 36: 870-878.

Thanabalu, T., Hindley, J., Jackson-Yap, J. and Berry, C. (1991)
Cloning, sequencing and expression of a gene encoding a 100-kilodalton mosquitocidal toxin from Bacillus sphaericus SSII-1.
J. Bacteriol. 173: 2776-2785.

Thanabalu, T., Hindley, J., Brenner, S., Oei, C. and Berry, C. (1992)
Expression of the mosquitocidal toxins of Bacillus sphaericus and Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensisby recombinant Caulobacter crescentus, a vehicle for biological control of aquatic insect larvae.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58: 905-910.

Oei, C., Hindley, J. and Berry, C. (1992)
Binding of purified Bacillus sphaericus binary toxin and its deletion derivatives to Culex quinquefasciatus gut: elucidation of functional binding domains.
J. Gen. Microbiol. 138: 1515-1526.

Thanabalu, T., Hindley, J. and Berry, C. (1992)
Proteolytic processing of the mosquitocidal toxin from Bacillus sphaericus SSII-1.
J. Bacteriol. 174: 5051-5056.

Berry, C., Hindley, J., Ehrhardt, A.F., Grounds, T., de Souza, I. and Davidson, E.W. (1993)
Genetic determinants of the host range of the Bacillus sphaericus mosquito larvicidal toxins.
J. Bacteriol. 175: 510-518.

Thanabalu, T., Berry, C., and Hindley, J. (1993)
Cytotoxicity and ADP-ribosylating activity of the mosquitocidal toxin from Bacillus sphaericus SSII-1: Possible roles of the 27- and 70-kilodalton peptides.
J. Bacteriol. 175: 2314-2320.

Dame, J.B., Reddy, G.R., Yowell, C.A., Dunn, B.M., Kay, J., and Berry, C. (1994)
Sequence, expression and modelled structure of an aspartic proteinase from the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 64: 177-190.

Hill, J., Tyas, L., Phylip, L.H., Kay, J., Dunn, B.M. and Berry, C. (1994)
High level expression and characterisation of plasmepsin II, an aspartic proteinase from Plasmodium falciparum.
FEBS Lett. 352: 155-158.

Moon, R.P., Tyas, L., Certa, U., Rupp, K., Bur, D., Jaquet, C., Matile, H., Loetscher, H.-R., Grueninger-Leitch, F., Kay, J., Dunn, B.M., Berry, C. and Ridley, R.G. (1997)
Expression and characterisation of plasmepsin I from Plasmodium falciparum.
Eur. J. Biochem. 244: 552-560.

Charles, J.-F., Silva-Filha, M.H., Nielsen-LeRoux, C., Humphreys, M.J. and Berry, C. (1997)
Binding of the 51- and 42-kDa individual components from the Bacillus sphaericus crystal toxin to mosquito larval midgut membranes from Culex and Anopheles sp. (Diptera: Culicidae).
FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 156: 153-159.

Humphreys, M.J and Berry, C. (1998)
Variants of the Bacillus sphaericus binary toxins: implications for differential toxicity of strains.
J. Invertebr. Pathol. 71: 184-185.

Berry, C., Humphreys, M.J., Matharu, P., Granger, R., Horrocks, P., Moon, R.P., Certa, U., Ridley, R.G., Bur, D., and Kay, J. (1999)
A distinct member of the aspartic proteinase gene family from the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
FEBS Lett. 447: 149-154.

Tyas, L., Gluzman, I., Moon, R.P., Rupp, K., Westling, J., Ridley, R.G., Kay, J., Goldberg, D.E. and Berry, C. (1999)
Naturally-occurring and recombinant forms of Plasmepsins I and II from the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
FEBS Lett. 454: 210-214.

Pritchard, D.I., Brown, A., Kasper, G., McElroy, P., Loukas, A., Hewitt, C., Berry, C., Füllkrug, R. and Beck, E. (1999)
A hookworm allergen which strongly resembles calreticulin.
Parasite Immunol. 21: 439-450.

Humphreys, M.J., Moon, R.P., Klinder, A., Fowler, S.D. Rupp, K., Bur, D., Ridley, R.G. and Berry, C. (1999)
The aspartic proteinase from the rodent parasite Plasmodium berghei as a potential model for plasmepsins from the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
FEBS Lett. 463: 43-48.

Girdwood, K. and Berry, C. (2000)
The disulphide bond arrangement in the major pepsin inhibitor PI-3 of Ascaris suum.
FEBS Lett. 474: 253-254.

Kasper, G., Brown, A., Eberl, M., Vallar, L., Kieffer, N., Berry, C., Girdwood, K., Eggleton, P., Quinnell, R. and Pritchard, D.I. (2001)
A calreticulin-like molecule from the human hookworm Necator americanus interacts with C1q and the cytoplasmic signalling domains of some integrins.
Parasite Immunol. 23: 1-13.

Coombs, G.H., Goldberg, D.E., Klemba, M., Berry, C., Kay, J. and Mottram, J.C. (2001)
Aspartic proteases of parasitic protozoa as drug targets.
Trends Parasitol. 17: 532-537.

Schwartz, J.-L., Potvin, L., Coux, F., Charles, J.-F., Berry, C., Humphreys, M.J., Jones, A.F., Bernhart, I., Serra, M.D. and Menestrina, G. (2001)
Permeabilisation of model lipid membranes by Bacillus sphaericus mosquitocidal binary toxin and its individual components.
J. Memb. Biol. 184: 171-183.

Wyatt, D.M. and Berry, C. (2002)
Activity and inhibition of plasmepsin IV, a new aspartic proteinase from the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
FEBS Lett. 513: 159-162.

Partridge, M.R and Berry, C. (2002)
Insecticidal activity of the Bacillus sphaericus Mtx1 toxin against Chironomus riparus.
J. Invertebr. Pathol. 79: 135-136.

Williamson, A.L., Brindley, P.J., Abbenante, G., Prociv, P., Berry, C., Girdwood, K., Pritchard, D.I., Fairlie, D.P., Hotez, P.J., Dalton, J.P. and Loukas, A. (2002)
Cleavage of hemoglobin by hookworm cathepsin D aspartic proteases and its potential contribution to host specificity.
FASEB J. 16: 1458-1460.
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Berry, C., O’Neil, S., Ben-Dov, E., Jones, A.F., Murphy, L., Quail, M.A., Holden, M.T.G., Harris, D., Zaritsky, A. and Parkhill, J. (2002)
Complete sequence and organization of pBtoxis, the toxin-coding plasmid of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68: 5082-5095.

Williamson, A.L., Brindley, P.J., Abbenante, G., Prociv, P., Berry, C., Girdwood, K., Pritchard, D.I., Fairlie, D.P., Hotez, P.J., Zhan, B. and Loukas, A. (2003)
Hookworm aspartic protease, Na-APR-2, cleaves human hemoglobin and serum proteins in a host-specific fashion.
J. Infect. Dis. 187: 484-494.

Dell’Agli, M., Parapini, S., Basilico, N., Verotta, L., Taramelli, D., Berry, C. and Bosisio, E. (2003)
In vitro studies on the mechanism of action of two compounds with antiplasmodial activity: ellagic acid and 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl-(6’-O-galloyl)-O-ß-D-glucopyranoside.
Planta Medica 69: 162-164.

de Maagd, R., Bravo, A., Berry, C., Crickmore, N. and Schnepf, E.H. (2003)
Structure, diversity and evolution of protein toxins from spore-forming Entomopathogenic bacteria.
Ann. Rev. Genet. 37: 409-433.

Jones, S.M., Urch, J.E., Brun, R., Harwood, J.L., Berry, C. and Gilbert, I.H. (2004)
Analogues of thiolactomycin as potential anti-malarial and anti-trypanosomal agents.
Bioorg. Med. Chem. 12: 683-692.

Monnerat, R., da Silva, S.F., Dias, D.S., Martins, E.S., Praça, L.B., Jones, G.W., Soares, C.M., de Souza Dias, J.M.C. and Berry, C. (2004)
Screening of Brazilian Bacillus sphaericus strains for high toxicity against Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes aegypti.
J. Appl. Entomol. 128: 469-473.

Gul, S., Brown, R., May, E., Mazzulla, M., Smyth, M.G., Berry, C., Morby, A. and Powell, D.J. (2004)
Staphylococcus aureus DNA ligase: characterisation of its kinetics of catalysis and development of a high-throughput screening compatible chemiluminescent hybridization protection assay.
Biochem. J. 383: 551-559.

Whittingham, J.L., Leal, I., Nguyen, C., Kasinathan, G., Bell, E., Jones, A.F., Berry, C., Benito, A., Turkenburg, J.P., Dodson, E.J., Ruiz Perez, L.M., Wilkinson, A.J., Gunnar Johansson, N., Brun, R., Gilbert, I.H., Gonzalez Pacanowska, D. and Wilson, K.S. (2005)
dUTPase as a platform for antimalarial drug design: structural basis for the selectivity of a class of nucleoside inhibitors.
Structure 13: 329-338.

Monnerat, R.G., Souza Dias, D.G., Ferreira da Silva, S., Soares Martins, E., Berry, C., Falcão, R., Menezes Mendes Gomes, A.C., Botelho Praça, L. and Silveira Soares, C.M. (2005)
Screening of Bacillus thuringiensis strains effective against mosquitoes.
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira 40: 103-106.

Jones, S.M., Urch, J.E., Kaiser, M., Brun, R., Harwood, J.L., Berry, C. and Gilbert, I.H. (2005)
Analogs of thiolactomycin as potential antimalarial agents.
J. Med. Chem. 48: 5932-5941.

Martins, T., Domingos, A., Berry, C. and Wyatt, D.M. (2006)
The activity and inhibition of the food vacuole plasmepsin from the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi.
ACTA Trop. 97: 212-218.

Andrews, K.T., Fairlie, D.P., Madala, P.K., Ray, J., Wyatt, D.M., Hilton, P.M., Melville, L.A., Beattie, L., Gardiner, D.L., Reid, R.C., Stoermer, M.J., Skinner-Adams, T., Berry, C. and McCarthy, J.S. (2006)
Potencies of Human Immunodeficiency Virus protease inhibitors in vitro against Plasmodium falciparum and in vivo against murine malaria.
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 50: 639-648.

Gammon, K., Jones, G.W., Hope, S.J., de Oliveira, C.M.F., Regis, L., Silva Filha, M.H.N.L., Dancer, B.N. and Berry, C. (2006)
Conjugal transfer of a toxin-coding megaplasmid from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis to mosquitocidal strains of Bacillus sphaericus.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 1766-1770.

Stein, C., Jones, G.W., Chalmers, T. and Berry, C. (2006)
Transcriptional analysis of the toxin coding plasmid pBtoxis from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 1771-1776.

Winterburn, T.J., Wyatt, D.M., Phylip, L.H., Berry, C., Bur, D. and Kay, J. (2006)
Adaptation of the behaviour of an aspartic proteinase inhibitor by relocation of a lysine residue by one helical turn.
Biol. Chem. 387: 1139-1142.

Manasherob, R., Itsko, M., Sela-Baranes, N., Ben-Dov, E., Berry, C., Cohen, S. and Zaritsky, A. (2006)
Cyt1Ca from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis: production in Escherichia coli and comparison of its biological activities with those of other Cyt-like proteins.
Microbiol. 152: 2651-2659.

Soares Martins, E., Praça, L.B., Dumas, V.F., Silva-Werneck, J.O., Sone, E.H., Waga, I.C., Berry, C. and Monnerat, R.G. (2007)
Characterization of Bacillus thuringiensis isolates toxic to cotton boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis).
Biol. Control 40: 65-68.

Yang, Y., Wang, L., Gaviria, A., Zhiming, Y. and Berry, C. (2007)
Proteolytic stability of insecticidal toxins expressed in recombinant bacilli.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73: 218-225.

Winterburn, T.J., Wyatt, D.M., Phylip, L.H., Bur, D., Harrison, R.J., Berry, C. and Kay, J. (2007)
Key features determining the specificity of aspartic proteinase inhibition by the helix-forming IA₃ polypeptide.
J. Biol. Chem. 282: 6508-6516.

Wu, E., Jun, L., Yongming, Y., Jianping, Y., Berry, C. and Yuan, Z. (2007)
Characterisation of a cryptic plasmid from Bacillus sphaericus strain LP1-G.
Plasmid 57: 296-305.

Monnerat, R.G., Batista, A.C., Telles de Medeiros, P., Soares Martins, E., Melatti, V.M., Botelho Praça, L., Dumas, V.F., Morinaga, C., Demo, C., Menezes Gomes, A.C., Falcão, R., Siqueira, C.B., Silva-Werneck, J.O. and Berry, C. (2007)
Screening of Brazilian Bacillus thuringiensis isolates active against Spodoptera frugiperda, Plutella xylostella and Anticarsia gemmatalis.
Biol. Control 41: 291-295.

Winterburn, T.J., Phylip, L.H., Bur, D., Wyatt, D.M., Berry, C. and Kay, J. (2007)
N-terminal extension of the yeast IA₃ aspartic proteinase inhibitor relaxes the strict intrinsic selectivity.
FEBS J. 274: 3685-3694.

Shea, M., Jäkle, U., Liu, Q., Berry, C., Joiner, K. and Soldati-Favre, D. (2007)
A family of aspartic proteases and a novel compartment of the secretory pathway in Toxoplasma gondii.
Traffic 8: 1018-1034.

Wirth, M.C., Yang, Y., Walton, W.E., Federici, B.A. and Berry, C. (2007)
Mtx toxins synergise Bacillus sphaericus and Cry11Aa against susceptible and insecticide resistant Culex quinquefasciatus.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73: 6066-6071.

Jones, G.W., Nielsen-Leroux, C., Yang, Y., Yuan, Z., Fiúza Dumas, V., Gomes Monnerat, R. and Berry, C. (2007)
A new Cry toxin with a unique two-component dependency from Bacillus sphaericus.
FASEB J. 21: 4112-4120.

Mokarzel-Falcón, L., Padrón-García, J.A., Carrasco-Velar, R., Berry, C. and Montero-Cabrera, L.A. (2008)
In silico study of the human rhodopsin and meta rhodopsin/ S-arrestin complexes. Impact of single point mutations related to retina degenerative diseases.
Proteins 70: 1133-1141.

Hu, X., Fan, W., Han, B., Liu, H., Zheng, D., Li, Q., Dong, W., Yan, J., Gao, M., Berry, C. and Yuan, Z. (2008)
Complete genome sequences of the mosquitocidal bacterium Bacillus sphaericus C3-41 and comparisons with closely related Bacillus species.
J. Bacteriol. 190: 2892-2902.

Jones, G.W., Wirth, M.C., Monnerat, R.G. and Berry, C. (2008)
The Cry48Aa-Cry49Aa binary toxin from Bacillus sphaericus exhibits highly-restricted target specificity.
Environ. Microbiol. 10: 2418-2424.

Ramírez, A.R., Guerra, Y., Otero, A., García, B., Berry, C., Mendiola, J., Hernández-Zarnui, A. and Chávez, M. (2009)
Generation of an affinity matrix useful in the purification of inhibitors of plasmepsin II, an antimalarial drug target.
Biotechnol. Appl. Biochem. 52: 149-157.

Padrón-García, J.A., Alonso-Tarajano, M., Alonso-Becerra, E., Winterburn, T.J., Ruiz, Y., Kay, J. and Berry, C. (2009)
Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship of IA₃-like peptides as aspartic proteinase inhibitors.
Proteins 75: 859-869.

Kandil, S., Biondaro, S., Vlachakis, D., Cummins, A.-C. Coluccia, A., Berry, C., Leyssen, P., Neyts, J. and Brancale, A. (2009)
Discovery of a novel HCV helicase inhibitor by a de novo drug design approach.
Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 19: 2935-2937.

Monnerat, R.G., Soares, C.M., Capdeville, G., Jones, G., Soares Martins, E., Praça, L., Cordeiro, B.A., Braz, S.V., dos Santos, R.C. and Berry, C. (2009)
Translocation and insecticidal activity of Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria living inside of plants.
Microbial Biotechnol. 2: 512-520.

Santos, K., Neves, P., Santos, R., Meneguim, A.M., Santos, W.J., Villas Boas, G., Dumas, V., Martins, E., Praça, L., Berry, C., Queiroz, P. and Monnerat, R. (2009)
Selection and characterization of the Bacillus thuringiensis strains toxic to Spodoptera eridania (Cramer), Spodoptera cosmioides (Walker) and Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith) (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae).
Biol. Control 50: 157-163.

de Melo, J.V., Jones, G.W., Berry, C., Teixeira Vasconcelos, R.H., Fontes de Oliveira, C.M., Freire Furtado, A., Alves Peixoto, C. and Neves Lobo Silva-Filha, M.H. (2009)
Cry48Aa/Cry49Aa binary toxin from Bacillus sphaericus displays cytopathological effects on susceptible and binary toxin-resistant Culex quinquefasciatus larvae.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75: 4782-4789.

Abdoarrahem, M.M., Gammon, K., Dancer, B.N. and Berry, C. (2009)
A genetic basis for the alkaline-activation of germination in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75: 6410-6413.

Berry, C. and Baker, M.D. (2010)
Inside protein structures: teaching in three dimensions.
Biochem. Mol. Biol. Educ. 38: 425-429.

Melatti, V.M., Praça, L.B., Martins, E.S., Sujii, E., Berry, C. and Monnerat, R.G. (2010)
Selection of Bacillus thuringiensis strains toxic against cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae).
BioAssay 5: 1-4.

White, R.E., Dickinson, J.R., Powell, D.J. and Berry, C. (2011)
The retroviral proteinase active site and the N-terminus of Ddi1 are required for repression of protein secretion.
FEBS Lett. 585: 139-142.

Opota, O., Gauthier, N.C., Doye, A., Berry, C., Gounon, P., Lemichez, E. and Pauron, D. (2011)
Bacillus sphaericus binary toxin toxin elicits host cell autophagy as a response to intoxication.
PLoS One 6: e14682.

White, R.E., Powell, D.J. and Berry, C. (2011)
HIV proteinase inhibitors target the Ddi1-like protein of Leishmania parasites.
FASEB J. 25: 1729-1736.

McKay, P.B. Peters, M.B., Carta, G., Flood, C.T., Dempsey, E., Bell, A., Berry, C., Lloyd, D.G. and Fayne, E.D. (2011)
Identification of plasmepsin inhibitors as selective antimalarial agents using ligand based drug design.
Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 21: 3335-3341.

Berry, C. (2012)
The bacterium, Lysinibacillus sphaericus, as an insect pathogen.
J. Invertebr. Pathol. 109: 1-10.

Monnerat, R., Martins, E., Praça, L., Dumas, V. and Berry, C. (2012)
Activity of a Brazilian strain of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, against the cotton boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis Boheman, 1843) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).
Neotrop. Entomol. 41: 62-67.

Guerra, Y., Valiente, P.A., Berry, C., and Pons, T.
Predicting functional residues of the Solanum lycopersicum aspartic protease inhibitor (SLAPI) by combining sequence and structural analysis with molecular docking.
J. Mol. Model. In press

Berry, C.
Metrics-based assessments of research: incentives for 'institutional plagiarism'?
Sci. Eng. Ethics In press

Berry, C., Oei, C., Hindley, J. and Jackson-Yap, J. (1989)
Cloning, sequencing and expression of the toxin genes of Bacillus sphaericus.
J. Cell. Biochem. Supplement 13A: 166.

Murphy, D., Pardy, K., Berry, C. and Carter, D. (1991)
Increase in vasopressin mRNA polynucleotide tail length following physiological stimulation: Regulation, function and mechanism.
J. Cell. Biochem. Supplement 15D: 200.

Berry, C., Dame, J.B., Dunn, B.M., and Kay. J. (1994)
Aspartic proteinases from the human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Biochem. Soc. Trans. 22: 305.

Berry, C., Dame, J.B., Dunn, B.M. and Kay, J. (1994)
Aspartic proteinases from the human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Biochemical Society Meeting No. 650, Cardiff, UK, p48.

Tyas, L., Hill, J., Phylip, L., Dunn, B.M., Kay, J. and Berry, C. (1994)
Malarial parasite aspartic proteinases.
Biochemical Society Meeting No. 652, Canterbury, UK, p33.

Berry, C., Tyas, L., Phylip, L.H., Westling, J., Dunn, B.M., Kay, J., and Hill, J. (1995)
Overexpression and characterisation of plasmepsin II, an aspartic proteinase from Plasmodium falciparum.
Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 89: 157.

Berry, C., Dame, J.B., Dunn, B.M. and Kay, J. (1995)
Aspartic proteinases from the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
J. Cell. Biochem. Supplement 18D p165.

Berry, C., Coux, F. and Thiéry, I. (1996)
Engineering the mosquitocidal toxins of Bacillus sphaericus for enhanced activity.
In: Bacterial protein toxins, Zbl. Bakt. Suppl. 28, (Frandsen et al. Eds.), pp335-336, Gustav Fisher Vorlag.

Berry, C, Dunn, B.M., Craik, C.S. and Kay, J. 2002
Special delivery.
Biochem. Mol. Biol. Education 30:151.

Urch, J.E., Berry, C. and Harwood, J.L. (2002)
Fatty Acid synthesis as a target for novel anti-malarials.
Biochem. Soc. Trans. 30: A120.

Vlachakis, D.P., Berry, C., Jones, G. and Brancale, A. (2005)
An Assay for the biological testing of potential inhibitors for the HCV helicase, Dengue virus helicase and Dengue virus helicase/protease complex (NS3 domain).
Antiviral Research 65: A60.

Wyatt, D.M. and Berry, C. (2005)
Antimalarial effects of HIV-proteinase inhibitors: common compounds but structurally distinct enzymes.
J. Infect. Dis. 192: 705-706.

Guerra, Y., Ramírez, A., Reytor, M.L., Robles, R., Berry, C., Mendiola, J., Hernández-Zanui, A. and Chávez, M. (2008)
Natural inhibitor of plasmepsin II from the gorgonian Plexaura homomalla: partial purification and characterization.
FEBS J. 275 (Suppl. 1): 450.

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