The Toxoplasma gondii rhoptry protein ROP18 is an Irga6-specific kinase and regulated by the dense granule protein GRA7

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 244-259

  Hermanns, Thomas ^a   Müller, Urs B ^a   Könen Waisman, Stephanie ^a   Howard, Jonathan C ^b   Steinfeldt, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GRA7 PROTEIN; IRGA6 PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; ROP5 PROTEIN; RPO18 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; GRA7 PROTEIN, TOXOPLASMA GONDII; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; IIGP1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; ROP18 PROTEIN, TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CLEARANCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TACHYZOITE; TONOPLAST; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 84955076988     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12499     Document Type: Article

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