A Toxoplasma gondii rhoptry protein associated with host cell penetration has unusual charge asymmetry

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 1-15

  Ossorio, Pilar N ^a   Schwartzman, Joseph D ^b   Boothroyd, John C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous migration; Invasion; Penetration enhancement factor; Rhoptry protein; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0026544061     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(92)90239-G     Document Type: Article

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