A Toxoplasma gondii mutant highlights the importance of translational regulation in the apicoplast during animal infection

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1204-1216

  Payne, T Matthew ^a   Payne, Amanda J ^a   Knoll, Laura J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR G;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITOPE MAPPING; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TGEFG GENE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; ORGANELLES; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 82155166250     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07879.x     Document Type: Article

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