Targeted deletion of MIC5 enhances trimming proteolysis of Toxoplasma invasion proteins

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2174-2183

  Brydges, Susannah D ^a,e   Zhou, Xing Wang ^a,f   Huynh, My Hang ^a,d   Harper, Jill M ^a,g   Mital, Jeffrey ^b   Adjogble, Koku D Z ^c   Däubener, Walter ^c   Ward, Gary E ^b   Carruthers, Vern B ^a,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

^c Inst for Med Microbiol/Virology   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; H4 PROTEIN, TOXOPLASMA GONDII; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; TOXOPLASMA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE DELETION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; VIRULENCE;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33845681203     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00163-06     Document Type: Article

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