An aspartyl protease defines a novel pathway for export of Toxoplasma proteins into the host cell

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Volumn 4, Issue NOVEMBER2015, 2015, Pages

  Coffey, Michael J ^a,b   Sleebs, Brad E ^a,b   Uboldi, Alessandro D ^a,b   Garnham, Alexandra ^a,b   Franco, Magdalena ^c   Marino, Nicole D ^c   Panas, Michael W ^c   Ferguson, David J P ^d   Enciso, Marta ^e   O’Neill, Matthew T ^a   Lopaticki, Sash ^a   Stewart, Rebecca J ^a,b   Dewson, Grant ^a,b   Smyth, Gordon K ^a,b   Smith, Brian J ^e   Masters, Seth L ^a,b   Boothroyd, John C ^c   Boddey, Justin A ^a,b   Tonkin, Christopher J ^a,b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CATALASE; HEMAGGLUTININ; MYC PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOGENESIS; CELL MIGRATION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLAQUE ASSAY; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UPREGULATION; CELL CULTURE; ENZYMOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TOXOPLASMA; VIRULENCE;

ASPARTIC ACID PROTEASES; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84957921916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.10809     Document Type: Article

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