Toxoplasma gondii microneme proteins: Gene cloning and possible function

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 219, Issue , 1996, Pages 55-58

  Fourmaux, M N ^a   Garcia Reguet N ^a   Mercereau Puijalon, O ^b   Dubremetz, J F ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0029783782     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-51014-4_5     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. Achbarou A, Mercereau-Puijalon O, Autheman JM, Fortier B, Camus D, Dubremetz JF (1991) Characterization of microneme proteins of Toxoplasma gondii Mol Biochem Parasitol 47.223-233
2. Adams JH, Hudson DE, Toni M, Ward GE, Wellems TE, Aikawa M, Miller LH (1990) The Duffy receptor family of Plasmodium knowlesi is located within the micronemes of invasive malaria merozoites. Cell 63:141-153
3. Adams JH, Sim BKL, Dolan SA, Fang XD, Kaslow DC, Miller LH (1992) A family of erythrocyte binding proteins of malaria parasites. Proc Natl Acad Sci 89:7085-7089
4. Blackman MJ, Ling, IT, Nicholls SC. and Holder AA (1991) Proteolytic processing of the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 produces a membrane-bound fragment containing two epidermal growth factor-like domains. Mol Biochem Parasitol 49:29-34
5. Cerami C, U Frevert, Sinnis P, Takacs B, Clavijo P, Santos MJ, Nussenzweig V (1992) The basolateral domain of the hepatocyte plasma membrane bears receptors for the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites. Cell 70:1021-1033
6. Chitnis C, Miller L (1994) Identification of the erythrocyte binding domain of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium knowlesi proteins involved in erythrocyte invasion. J Exp Med 180:497-506
7. Entzeroth R, Kerchkoff H, Konig A (1992) Microneme secretion in coccidia: confocal laser scanning and electron microscope study on microneme secretion of Sarcocystis muris using a monoclonal antibody Eur J Cell Biol 59:405-413
8. Eschenbacher KH, Klein H, Sommer I, Meyer HE, Entzeroth R. Mehlhorn H, Ruger W (1993) Characterization of cDNA clones encoding a major microneme antigen of Sarcocystis muris (Apicomplexa). Mol Biochem Parasitol 62:27-36
9. Fine E, Aikawa M, Cochrane AH, Nussenzweig RS (1984) Immuno-electron microscopic observations on Plasmodium knowlesi sporozoites: localization of protective antigen and its precursors. Am J Trop Med Hyg 33:220-226
10. Kaslow DC, Quakyi IA, Syin C, Raum MG, Keister DB, Coligan JE, McCuchan TF, Miller LH (1988) A vaccine candidate from the sexual stage of human malaria that contains EGF-like domains. Nature 333:74-77
11. Morrissette NS, Bedian V, Webster P, Roos DS (1994) Characterization of extreme apical antigens from Toxoplasma gondii. Exp Parasitol 79.445-459
12. Robson KJH, Hall JRS, Jennings MW, Harris TJR, Marsh K, Newbold CI, Tate VE, Weatherhall DJ (1988) A highly conserved sequence in thrombospondin, properdin and in proteins from sporozoites and blood stages of a human malarial parasite. Nature 335 79-82
13. Robson KJH, Frevert U, Reckman I, Cowan G, Beier J, Scragg SG, Takehara K, Bishop DHL, Pradel G, Sinden RE, Saccheo S, Müller HM, Crisanti A (1995) Thrombospondin related adhesive protein (TRAP) of Plasmodium falciparum: expression during sporozoite ontogeny and binding to human hepatocytes. EMBO J 14:3883-3894
14. Rogers WO, Malik A, Mellouk S, Nakamura K, Rogers M, Szarfman A, Gordon D, Aikawa M, Hoffman S (1992) Characterization of Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite surface protein 2. Proc Natl Acad Sci 89:9176-9180
15. Sim BKL, Chitnis CE, Wasniowska K, Hadley TJ, Miller LH (1994) Receptor and ligand domains for invasion of erythrocytes by Plasmodium falciparum Science 264:1941-1944
16. Tomley FM, Clarke LE, Kawazoe U, Dijkema R, Kok JJ (1991) Sequence of the gene encoding an immunodominant microneme protein of Eimeria tenella Mol Biochem Parasitol 49:227-288