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Making Home Sweet and Sturdy: Toxoplasma gondii ppGalNAc-Ts Glycosylate in Hierarchical Order and Confer Cyst Wall Rigidity

The protozoan intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii forms latent cysts in the central nervous system (CNS) and persists for the lifetime of the host. This cyst is cloaked with a glycosylated structure called the cyst wall. Previously, we demonstrated that a mucin-like glycoprotein, CST1, localize...

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Autores principales: Tomita, Tadakimi, Sugi, Tatsuki, Yakubu, Rama, Tu, Vincent, Ma, Yanfen, Weiss, Louis M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28074022
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02048-16