Identification of tissue cyst wall components by transcriptome analysis of in vivo and in vitro Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoites

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1637-1647

  Buchholz, Kerry R ^a   Fritz, Heather M ^b   Chen, Xiucui ^b   Durbin Johnson, Blythe ^b   Rocke, David M ^b   Ferguson, David J ^c   Conrad, Patricia A ^b   Boothroyd, John C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL WALL; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN SPORE; SECRETION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL WALL; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPORES, PROTOZOAN; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 82555161647     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.05182-11     Document Type: Article

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