RON5 Is Critical for Organization and Function of the Toxoplasma Moving Junction Complex

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Beck, Josh R ^a,b   Chen, Allan L ^a   Kim, Elliot W ^a   Bradley, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RHOPTRY NECK PROTEIN RON2; RHOPTRY NECK PROTEIN RON4; RHOPTRY NECK PROTEIN RON5; RHOPTRY NECK PROTEIN RON8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MICROSCOPY; MOVING JUNCTION COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84897442989     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004025     Document Type: Article

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