Toxofilin upregulates the host cortical actin cytoskeleton dynamics facilitating Toxoplasma invasion
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Toxofilin upregulates the host cortical actin cytoskeleton dynamics, facilitating Toxoplasma invasion.
Toxoplasma gondii, a human pathogen and a model apicomplexan parasite, actively and rapidly invades host cells. To initiate invasion, the parasite induces the formation of a parasite-cell junction, and progressively propels itself through the junction, inside a newly formed vacuole that encloses the entering parasite. Little is known about how a parasite that is a few microns in diameter overco...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Science
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1477-9137,0021-9533
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.103648