Beyond the genome: Recent advances in Toxoplasma gondii functional genomics

Parasite Immunology

Volumn 34, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 80-89

  Adomako Ankomah, Y ^a   Wier, G M ^a   Boyle, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Parasite functional genomics; Tools and techniques; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DETERGENT; ENOLASE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL;

ANAEROBIC GLYCOLYSIS; APICOMPLEXA; BRADYZOITE; CELL CYCLE; CELL MATURATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GLYCOLYSIS; HOST CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEOMICS; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REVIEW; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TACHYZOITE; THREE LAYERED SANDWICH GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMICS; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84856980908     PISSN: 01419838     EISSN: 13653024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2011.01312.x     Document Type: Review

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