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Ionophore-resistant mutants of Toxoplasma gondii reveal host cell permeabilization as an early event in egress.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Dec 2000
Black M W, Arrizabalaga G, Boothroyd J C
Abstract excerpt
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular pathogen within the phylum Apicomplexa. Invasion and egress by this protozoan parasite are rapid events that are dependent upon parasite motility and appear to be directed by fluctuations in intracellular [Ca(2+)]. Treatment of infected host cells with the calcium ionophore A23187 causes the parasites to undergo rapid egress in a process termed ionophore-induced...
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