Polymorphic family of injected pseudokinases is paramount in Toxoplasma virulence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9625-9630

  Reese, Michael L ^a   Zeiner, Gusti M ^a,c   Saeij, Jeroen P J ^a,d   Boothroyd, John C ^a   Boyle, Jon P ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copy number variation; Host pathogen interaction

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORYLASE KINASE; PSEUDOKINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CATALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HOST CELL; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; MUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 79958732860     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015980108     Document Type: Article

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