Two conserved amino acid motifs mediate protein targeting to the micronemes of the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 7332-7341

  Di Cristina, M ^a   Spaccapelo, R ^a   Soldati, D ^a   Bistoni, F ^a   Crisanti, A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRONEMAL PROTEIN 2; PROTEIN SAG1; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; APICOMPLEXA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANELLES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TOXOPLASMA; TRANSFECTION; TYROSINE; VERO CELLS;

EID: 0033830555     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.19.7332-7341.2000     Document Type: Article

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