Pleiotropic effect due to targeted depletion of secretory rhoptry protein ROP2 in Toxoplasma gondii

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2311-2320

  Nakaar, Valerian ^a   Ngô, Huân M ^a   Aaronson, Emily P ^a   Coppens, Isabelle ^a   Stedman, Timothy T ^a   Joiner, Keith A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Pleiotropic; Rhoptry; Secretion; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; PROTEIN ROP2; RIBOZYME; SECRETORY PROTEIN; STEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APICOMPLEXA; BIOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INVASION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; EXOCYTOSIS; FIBROBLAST; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRULENCE;

APICOMPLEXA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0037672558     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00382     Document Type: Review

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