Host cell lipids control cholesteryl ester synthesis and storage in intracellular Toxoplasma

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 849-867

  Nishikawa, Yoshifumi ^a   Quittnat, Friederike ^a   Stedman, Timothy T ^a   Voelker, Dennis R ^b   Choi, Jae Yeon ^b   Zahn, Matt ^b   Yang, Mei ^a   Pypaert, Marc ^a   Joiner, Keith A ^a   Coppens, Isabelle ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; FAT DROPLET; FATTY ACID; ISOENZYME; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PALMITIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL ESTERIFICATION; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPID STORAGE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLESTEROL ESTERS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; LIPIDS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PALMITATES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; TOXOPLASMA;

MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 21144457068     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2005.00518.x     Document Type: Article

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