The dense granule antigen, GRA2 of Toxoplasma gondii is a glycoprotein containing O-linked oligosaccharides

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 241-246

  Zinecker, Christina F ^a   Striepen, Boris ^a,d   Tomavo, Stanislas ^a,b   Dubremetz, Jean Francois ^c   Schwarz, Ralph T ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dense granule; Glycoprotein; Glycosylation; Protozoa; Subcellular organelles; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

CELL ANTIGEN; GLYCOPROTEIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLYCOSYLATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PREGNANCY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; VERO CELLS;

PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0032583162     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00136-4     Document Type: Article

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