The IRG protein-based resistance mechanism in mice and its relation to virulence in Toxoplasma gondii

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 414-421

  Howard, Jonathan C ^a,b   Hunn, Julia P ^a   Steinfeldt, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; PROTEIN IRG; PROTEIN IRGM; PROTEIN IRGM1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SCREENING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MICE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VACUOLES; VIRULENCE;

MUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 80051792857     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2011.07.002     Document Type: Review

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