Toxoplasma's ways of manipulating the host transcriptome via secreted effectors

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue , 2015, Pages 24-31

  Hakimi, Mohamed Ali ^a,b   Bougdour, Alexandre ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GRA16 PROTEIN; GRA24 PROTEIN; ROP16 PROTEIN; STAT1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOPLASM; DENSE BODY; EFFECTOR CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; TOXOPLASMA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84928608634     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2015.04.003     Document Type: Review

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