The moving junction protein RON8 facilitates firm attachment and host cell invasion in Toxoplasma gondii

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Straub, Kurtis W ^a   Peng, Eric D ^a   Hajagos, Bettina E ^a   Tyler, Jessica S ^b   Bradley, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RHOPTRY NECK PROTEIN 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMA1 PROTEIN, TOXOPLASMA GONDII; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RON PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL INVASION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; HOST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; DISEASE MODEL; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

MUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 79953287282     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002007     Document Type: Article

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