Toxoplasma gondii: Biochemical and biophysical characterization of recombinant soluble dense granule proteins GRA2 and GRA6

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 459, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 107-112

  Bittame, Amina ^a,b   Effantin, Grégory ^b,c,d,e   Pètre, Graciane ^a,b   Ruffiot, Pauline ^a,b,f   Travier, Laetitia ^a,b,g   Schoehn, Guy ^b,c,d,e   Weissenhorn, Winfried ^b,c,d,e   Cesbron Delauw, Marie France ^a,b   Gagnon, Jean ^a,b   Mercier, Corinne ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^d CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^e EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

^g INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Amphipathic alpha helices; Circular dichroism; Dense granule proteins (GRA); Dynamic light scattering; Toxoplasma gondii; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN GRA2; PROTEIN GRA6; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GRA2 PROTEIN, TOXOPLASMA GONDII; GRA6 PROTEIN, TOXOPLASMA GONDII; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; LIGHT; PROTEIN FOLDING; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLUBILITY;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84930177691     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.02.078     Document Type: Article

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