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<i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> Fatty Acid Elongases are Important for Virulence and Persistence

2026-07-31

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Toxoplasma gondii is an apicomplexan parasite which can infect a diverse range of warm-blooded host species. This promiscuous lifestyle requires metabolic flexibility yet our understanding of the metabolic pathways in this parasite remains incomplete. This gap includes the endoplasmic reticulum localised fatty acid elongation (FAE) pathway, which is responsible for synthesis of long (LCFA) and very long chain fatt...

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Literature Corpus work: 72c9ba57-f379-5886-b331-7b388f6c0830
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.29.741455

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