Trans-genera reconstitution and complementation of an adhesion complex in Toxoplasma gondii

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 771-782

  Huynh, My Hang ^a   Opitz, Corinna ^b   Kwok, Lai Yu ^c   Tomley, Fiona M ^d   Carruthers, Vern B ^a   Soldati, Dominique ^b,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EIMERIA TENELLA; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TARGETING; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSGENE; VERO CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CLONE CELLS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EIMERIA; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOXOPLASMA; TRANSFECTION; VIRULENCE;

APICOMPLEXA; EIMERIA; LOKTANELLA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 4043155559     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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