A Forward Genetic Screen Reveals that Calcium-dependent Protein Kinase 3 Regulates Egress in Toxoplasma

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Garrison, Erin ^a   Treeck, Moritz ^b   Ehret, Emma ^a   Butz, Heidi ^a   Garbuz, Tamila ^c   Oswald, Benji P ^a   Settles, Matt ^a   Boothroyd, John ^b   Arrizabalaga, Gustavo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM IONOPHORE; ELONGATION FACTOR 2 KINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE EGRESS; PARASITE MIGRATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MICE; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

MUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84870824899     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003049     Document Type: Article

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