Host cell manipulation by the human pathogen Toxoplasma gondii

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1900-1915

  Laliberte J ^a   Carruthers, V B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Host reorganization parasitophorous vacuole membrane; Molecular signaling; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

BCL2 RELATED PROTEIN A1; CASPASE; CELL PROTEIN; DEATH RECEPTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; I KAPPA B KINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 12; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RHOPTRY 16 PROTEIN; RHOPTRY 18 PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT6 PROTEIN; TRANSLOCASE OF OUTER MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE 20; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; CATALYSIS; CELL INVASION; CELL MANIPULATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYSOSOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; ORGANELLES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 45849145702     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-008-7556-x     Document Type: Review

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