Conditional expression of Toxoplasma gondii apical membrane antigen-1 (TgAMA1) demonstrates that TgAMA1 plays a critical role in host cell invasion

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 4341-4349

  Mital, Jeffrey ^a   Meissner, Markus ^b,c   Soldati, Dominique ^b,d   Ward, Gary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SECRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KNOCKOUT GENE; MALARIA; MICRONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 24344439282     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E05-04-0281     Document Type: Article

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