'The glideosome': A dynamic complex powering gliding motion and host cell invasion by Toxoplasma gondii

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 597-604

  Opitz, Corinna ^a   Soldati, Dominique ^b  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; DOCKING PROTEIN; F ACTIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; PROTEINASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

CAPPING PHENOMENON; CELL INVASION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTILITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOSKELETON; DISSOLUTION; HOST CELL; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOSKELETON; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0036372942     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03056.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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