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Ancient Weapons for Attack and Defense: the Pore‐forming Polypeptides of Pathogenic Enteric and Free‐living Amoeboid Protozoa<sup>1</sup>

1 Sept 2004

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Pore-forming polypeptides have been purified from several amoeboid protozoans that are well-known human pathogens. Obligate enteric parasites, such as Entamoeba histolytica, and free-living but potentially highly pathogenic species, such as Naegleria fowleri, contain these cytolytic molecules inside cytoplasmic granules. Comprehensive functional and structural studies have been conducted that include isolation of...

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PMID: 15537085
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2004.tb00286.x

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