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- Title
Modulation of innate immunity by Toxoplasma gondii virulence effectors.
- Authors
Hunter, Christopher A.; Sibley, L. David
- Abstract
Toxoplasma gondii is a common parasite of animals and humans and can cause serious opportunistic infections. However, the majority of infections are asymptomatic, possibly because the organism has co-evolved with its many vertebrate hosts and has developed multiple strategies to persist asymptomatically for the lifetime of the host. Over the past two decades, infection studies in the mouse, combined with forward-genetics approaches aimed at unravelling the molecular basis of infection, have revealed that T. gondii virulence is mediated, in part, by secretion of effector proteins into the host cell during invasion. Here, we review recent advances that illustrate how these virulence factors disarm innate immunity and promote survival of the parasite.
- Subjects
IMMUNITY; TOXOPLASMA gondii; PROTEINS; HUMAN life cycle; HEREDITY
- Publication
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012, Vol 10, Issue 11, p766
- ISSN
1740-1526
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/nrmicro2858