The antioxidant systems in Toxoplasma gondii and the role of cytosolic catalase in defence against oxidative injury

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-61

  Kwok, Lai Yu ^a,b   Schlüter, Dirk ^b   Clayton, Christine ^c   Soldati, Dominique ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PEROXIREDOXIN; PROTEIN TGPRX2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOREDOXIN PEROXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APICOMPLEXA; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FLAGELLATE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SHORT SURVEY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATALASE; CYTOSOL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; KINETOPLASTIDA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0347595338     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03823.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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