Toxoplasma gondii infection and its implications within the central nervous system

SK Matta, N Rinkenberger, IR Dunay… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that infects a wide range of animals and causes zoonotic
infections in humans. Although it normally only results in mild illness in healthy individuals …

Lessons from Toxoplasma: Host responses that mediate parasite control and the microbial effectors that subvert them

EM Frickel, CA Hunter - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2021 - rupress.org
The intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii has long provided a tractable experimental
system to investigate how the immune system deals with intracellular infections. This review …

Influence of the Host and Parasite Strain on the Immune Response During Toxoplasma Infection

D Mukhopadhyay, D Arranz-Solís… - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Toxoplasma gondii is an exceptionally successful parasite that infects a very broad host
range, including humans, across the globe. The outcome of infection differs remarkably …

Immune responses to Toxoplasma gondii

IA Khan, M Moretto - Current opinion in immunology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Toxoplasma gondii evokes a strong innate and adaptive immune response in the
host.•Innate immunity to the parasite is comprised of many components like DC, neutrophils …

Genome-wide and targeted CRISPR screens identify RNF213 as a mediator of interferon gamma–dependent pathogen restriction in human cells

SK Matta, HP Kohio, P Chandra… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
To define cellular immunity to the intracellular pathogen Toxoplasma gondii, we performed a
genome-wide CRISPR loss-of-function screen to identify genes important for (interferon …

Intestinal immune responses to commensal and pathogenic protozoa

A Sardinha-Silva, EVC Alves-Ferreira… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The physical barrier of the intestine and associated mucosal immunity maintains a delicate
homeostatic balance between the host and the external environment by regulating immune …

[HTML][HTML] The Toxoplasma effector GRA28 promotes parasite dissemination by inducing dendritic cell-like migratory properties in infected macrophages

AL Ten Hoeve, L Braun, ME Rodriguez, GC Olivera… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
Upon pathogen detection, macrophages normally stay sessile in tissues while dendritic cells
(DCs) migrate to secondary lymphoid tissues. The obligate intracellular protozoan …

Secreted Effectors Modulating Immune Responses to Toxoplasma gondii

T Tomita, RB Guevara, LM Shah, AY Afrifa, LM Weiss - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that chronically infects a third of
humans. It can cause life-threatening encephalitis in immune-compromised individuals …

Toxoplasma gondii manipulates host cell signaling pathways via its secreted effector molecules

F Ihara, Y Nishikawa - Parasitology International, 2021 - Elsevier
The obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii secretes a vast variety of effector
molecules from organelles known as rhoptries (ROPs) and dense granules (GRAs). ROP …

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Host-Parasite Coevolution: The Toxoplasma Paradigm

MA Hakimi - Annual review of microbiology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Like many intracellular pathogens, the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii has evolved
sophisticated mechanisms to promote its transmission and persistence in a variety of hosts …