Plasticity and redundancy among AMA-RON pairs ensure host cell entry of Toxoplasma parasites

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lamarque, Mauld H ^a   Roques, Magali ^a   Kong Hap, Marie ^a   Tonkin, Michelle L ^b   Rugarabamu, George ^c   Marq, Jean Baptiste ^c   Penarete Vargas, Diana M ^a   Boulanger, Martin J ^b   Soldati Favre, Dominique ^c   Lebrun, Maryse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; PROTEIN; RHOPTRY NECK PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMA1 PROTEIN, TOXOPLASMA GONDII; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RHOPTRY NECK PROTEIN 2, TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON; GENE DISRUPTION; GENOME; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; MOVING JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; PLASTICITY; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; REVERSE GENETICS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UPREGULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84902845644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5098     Document Type: Article

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