›› 2007, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (2): 17-157.

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Update on Host Cell Invasion by Toxoplasma gondii

LI Xue-rui1;WANG Yan-hua1;ZHAO Xiang-zhong2;ZHANG De-lin1   

  1. 1 Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Acedemy of Agricultural Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730046, China; 2 Gansu College of Husbandry Engineering, Huangyangzheng 733006, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-04-30 Published:2007-04-30
  • Contact: ZHANG De-lin

Abstract: This paper reviewed the importance of micronemes, dense granules, rhoptry and major surface proteins of Toxoplasma gondii, and of calcium during the host cell invasion as well as the role of T. gondii proteases in the folding and processing of these proteins.

Key words: Toxoplasma gondii, Invasion mechanism, Host cell