Targeting of soluble proteins to the rhoptries and micronemes in Toxoplasma gondii

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 45-53

  Striepen, Boris ^a,b   Soldati, Dominique ^c   Garcia Reguet, Nathalie ^d   Dubremetz, Jean Francois ^d   Roos, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Microneme; Protein targeting; Rhoptry; Secretion; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MICRONEME PROTIEN; PROTEIN; RHOPTRY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VACUOLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TARGETING; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE DELETION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; ORGANELLES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; TRANSFECTION;

PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0035096272     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00379-0     Document Type: Article

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