The Toxoplasma nuclear factor TgAP2XI-4 controls bradyzoite gene expression and cyst formation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 641-655

  Walker, Robert ^a   Gissot, Mathieu ^a   Croken, Matthew M ^b   Huot, Ludovic ^a   Hot, David ^a   Kim, Kami ^b   Tomavo, Stanislas ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FACTOR; NUCLEAR FACTOR TGAP2XI 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BRADYZOITE; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYST (RESTING STAGE); CYTOKINESIS; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TACHYZOITE; TGAP2XI 4 GENE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MICE; PROTEIN BINDING; SPORES, PROTOZOAN; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

MUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84873056276     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12121     Document Type: Article

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