Toxoplasma gondii homologue of plasmodium apical membrane antigen 1 is involved in invasion of host cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 7078-7086

  Hehl, Adrian B ^a,b   Lekutis, Christine ^a   Grigg, Michael E ^a   Bradley, Peter J ^a   Dubremetz, Jean François ^c   Ortega Barria, Eduardo ^a,d   Boothroyd, John C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE DE LILLE   (France)

^d Research and Information Center   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; DISULFIDE BOND; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 0034440542     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.12.7078-7086.2000     Document Type: Article

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