Genetic basis for phenotypic differences between different Toxoplasma gondii type I strains

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Ninghan ^a   Farrell, Andrew ^b   Niedelman, Wendy ^a   Melo, Mariane ^a   Lu, Diana ^a   Julien, Lindsay ^a   Marth, Gabor T ^b   Gubbels, Marc Jan ^b   Saeij, Jeroen P J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; NF K green B; Toxoplasma; Transcriptomics; Type I strains

Indexed keywords

GRA2 PROTEIN; I KAPPA B ALPHA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDEL MUTATION; INTERLEUKIN 12P40 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-12 SUBUNIT P40; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; NF-KAPPA B; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; VACUOLES;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84880013398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-467     Document Type: Article

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