Toxoplasma exports dense granule proteins beyond the vacuole to the host cell nucleus and rewires the host genome expression

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 334-343

  Bougdour, Alexandre ^a,b   Tardieux, Isabelle ^c   Hakimi, Mohamed Ali ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 14; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VACUOLES;

EID: 84893839615     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12255     Document Type: Article

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