Asexual expansion of Toxoplasma gondii merozoites is distinct from tachyzoites and entails expression of non-overlapping gene families to attach, invade, and replicate within feline enterocytes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hehl, Adrian B ^a   Basso, Walter U ^a   Lippuner, Christoph ^a,b   Ramakrishnan, Chandra ^a   Okoniewski, Michal ^c   Walker, Robert A ^a,d   Grigg, Michael E ^e   Smith, Nicholas C ^d   Deplazes, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS CENTER ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Cat; Coccidia; Comparative transcriptomics; Enteroepithelial development; Merozoite; Schizont; Stage specific gene expression; Surface antigen; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRA GENE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTESTINE CELL; MEROZOITE; METABOLISM; MIC GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; ROP GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SRS GENE; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TOXOPLASMA;

APICOMPLEXA; AVES; COCCIDIA; FELIDAE; MAMMALIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CATS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84928675019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1225-x     Document Type: Article

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