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Functional and Computational Genomics Reveal Unprecedented Flexibility in Stage-Specific Toxoplasma Metabolism.
Cell host & microbe - 12 Feb 2020
Krishnan Aarti, Kloehn Joachim, Lunghi Matteo, Chiappino-Pepe Anush, Waldman Benjamin S, Nicolas Damien, Varesio Emmanuel, Hehl Adrian, Lourido Sebastian, Hatzimanikatis Vassily, Soldati-Favre Dominique
Abstract excerpt
To survive and proliferate in diverse host environments with varying nutrient availability, the obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii reprograms its metabolism. We have generated and curated a genome-scale metabolic model (iTgo) for the fast-replicating tachyzoite stage, harmonized with experimentally observed phenotypes. To validate the importance of four metabolic pathways predicted by the model, we...
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