A Novel High Throughput Invasion Screen Identifies Host Actin Regulators Required for Efficient Cell Entry by Toxoplasma gondii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gaji, Rajshekhar Y ^a,b   Huynh, My Hang ^a   Carruthers, Vern B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; F ACTIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; POLO LIKE KINASE 1; RECEPTOR LIKE PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CELL TRANSFER; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTINS; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MICROTUBULES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TOXOPLASMA;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84878594159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064693     Document Type: Article

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