Characterization of the interaction between Toxoplasma gondii rhoptry neck protein 4 and host cellular β-tubulin

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Takemae, Hitoshi ^a,b   Sugi, Tatsuki ^a,b   Kobayashi, Kyousuke ^c   Gong, Haiyan ^b   Ishiwa, Akiko ^a,b   Recuenco, Frances C ^a,b   Murakoshi, Fumi ^b   Iwanaga, Tatsuya ^b   Inomata, Atsuko ^b   Horimoto, Taisuke ^b   Akashi, Hiroomi ^b   Kato, Kentaro ^a,b  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; ROM4 PROTEIN, TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHO CELL LINE; CRICETULUS; HAMSTER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; TUBULIN;

EID: 84887739560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03199     Document Type: Article

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