The arginine-rich N-terminal domain of ROP18 is necessary for vacuole targeting and virulence of Toxoplasma gondii

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1921-1933

  Fentress, Sarah J ^a   Steinfeldt, Tobias ^b   Howard, Jonathan C ^b   Sibley, L David ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RHOPTRY PROTEIN 18; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE MUTATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE DELETION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VACUOLES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

POTATO VIRUS M; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84869882389     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12022     Document Type: Article

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