Conservation of a gliding motility and cell invasion machinery in Apicomplexan parasites

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 937-943

  Kappe, Stefan ^a   Bruderer, Thomas ^a   Gantt, Soren ^a   Fujioka, Hisashi ^c   Nussenzweig, Victor ^a   Ménard, Robert ^a,b  

^a Kaplan Cancer Center   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexan parasites; Cell invasion; Gliding motility; Micronemal protein 2; Thrombospondin related anonymous protein

Indexed keywords

THROMBOSPONDIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT; SPOROZOITE; TOXOPLASMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; APICOMPLEXA; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; PEPTIDES; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033615981     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.147.5.937     Document Type: Article

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