Disruption of the Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoite-specific gene BAG1 decreases in vivo cyst formation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 691-701

  Zhang, Yi Wei ^a   Kim, Kami ^a   Fen Ma, Yan ^a   Wittner, Murray ^a   Tanowitz, Herbert B ^a   Weiss, Louis M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PHLEOMYCIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; GENE DISRUPTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CYSTS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOTYPE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 0032927740     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01210.x     Document Type: Article

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