Toxoplasma Effectors Targeting Host Signaling and Transcription

MA Hakimi, P Olias, LD Sibley - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Early electron microscopy studies revealed the elaborate cellular features that define the
unique adaptations of apicomplexan parasites. Among these were bulbous rhoptry (ROP) …

The updated biology of hypoxia‐inducible factor

SN Greer, JL Metcalf, Y Wang, M Ohh - The EMBO journal, 2012 - embopress.org
Oxygen is essential for eukaryotic life and is inextricably linked to the evolution of
multicellular organisms. Proper cellular response to changes in oxygen tension during …

Lytic Cycle of Toxoplasma gondii: 15 Years Later

IJ Blader, BI Coleman, CT Chen… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Toxoplasmosis is the clinical and pathological consequence of acute infection with the
obligate intracellular apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Symptoms result from …

HIF1α induced switch from bivalent to exclusively glycolytic metabolism during ESC‐to‐EpiSC/hESC transition

W Zhou, M Choi, D Margineantu, L Margaretha… - The EMBO …, 2012 - embopress.org
The function of metabolic state in stemness is poorly understood. Mouse embryonicstem
cells (ESC) and epiblast stem cells (EpiSC) are at distinct pluripotent statesrepresenting the …

Mechanisms of Human Innate Immune Evasion by Toxoplasma gondii

TS Lima, MB Lodoen - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular protozoan parasite of global importance that can
remarkably infect, survive, and replicate in nearly all mammalian cells. Notably, 110 years …

Toxoplasma gondii infections alter GABAergic synapses and signaling in the central nervous system

JM Brooks, GL Carrillo, J Su, DS Lindsay, MA Fox… - MBio, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
During infections with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii, gamma-aminobutyric acid
(GABA) is utilized as a carbon source for parasite metabolism and also to facilitate parasite …

[HTML][HTML] Hypoxia and HIF-1 activation in bacterial infections

G Devraj, C Beerlage, B Brüne, VAJ Kempf - Microbes and infection, 2017 - Elsevier
For most of the living beings, oxygen is one of the essential elements required to sustain life.
Deprivation of oxygen causes tissue hypoxia and this severely affects host cell and organ …

Host–parasite interactions: an intimate epigenetic relationship

K Cheeseman, JB Weitzman - Cellular Microbiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The epigenetics of host–pathogen interactions is emerging as an interesting angle from
which to study how parasites have evolved sophisticated strategies to manipulate host gene …

Toxoplasma gondii peptide ligands open the gate of the HLA class I binding groove

C McMurtrey, T Trolle, T Sansom, SG Remesh… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
HLA class I presentation of pathogen-derived peptide ligands is essential for CD8+ T-cell
recognition of Toxoplasma gondii infected cells. Currently, little data exist pertaining to …

Recent progress on anti-Toxoplasma drugs discovery: Design, synthesis and screening

Y Deng, T Wu, SQ Zhai, CH Li - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Toxoplasma gondii severely threaten the health of immunocompromised patients and
pregnant women as this parasite can cause several disease, including brain and eye …