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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2017-01-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/8/1/e02048-16 |