Host cell invasion by apicomplexans: What do we know?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 131-135

  Bargieri, Daniel ^a   Lagal, Vanessa ^b   Tardieux, Isabelle ^b   Ménard, Robert ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

Author keywords

Aldolase; AMA1; Apicomplexan zoites; Host cell invasion; RONs; Tight junction

Indexed keywords

AMA1 PROTEIN; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; MICRONEMAL PROTEIN 2; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RON PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APICOMPLEXA; APICOMPLEXAN INFECTION; CELL INVASION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SPOROZOITE; TACHYZOITE; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

APICOMPLEXA;

EID: 84859005819     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2012.01.005     Document Type: Review

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