Molecular mechanisms of parasite invasion
By: edited by Barbara A. Burleigh, Dominique Soldati-Favre.
Contributors: Burleigh, Barbara A.; Soldati, Dominique.
Series: Subcellular biochemistry -- v. 47; Sub-cellular biochemistry -- v. 47.
Publisher: Landes Bioscience; Springer Science+Business Media
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Austin, Tex; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780387782669
Subjects: Molecular parasitology; Host-parasite relationships; Host-Parasite Interactions -- physiology; Trypanosoma cruzi -- physiology; Actins -- physiology; Apicomplexa -- physiology; Protease Inhibitors -- metabolism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Current and emerging approaches to studying invasion in apicomplexan parasites / Jeffrey Mital and Gary E. Ward; title: Microneme proteins in apicomplexans / Vern B. Carruthers and Fiona M. Tomley; title: Erythrocyte invasion by plasmodium falciparum: multiple ligand-receptor interactions and phenotypic switching / Manoj T. Duraisingh  ... [et al.]; title: Role of the gp85/trans-sialidase superfamily of glycoproteins in the interaction of trypanosoma cruzi with host structures / Maria Jølia M. Alves and Walter Colli; title: Calcium regulation and signaling in apicomplexan parasites / Kisaburo Nagamune ... [et al.]; title: Trypanosoma cruzi: parasite and host cell signaling during the invasion process / Nobuko Yoshida and Mauro Cortez; title: Host cell actin remodeling in response to cryptosporidium / Steven P. O'Hara ... [et al.]; title: Host cell actin remodeling in response to trypanosoma cruzi: trypomastigote versus amastigote entry / Renato A. Mortara ... [et al.]; title: Actin/myosin-based gliding motility in apicomplexan parasites / Kai Matuschewski and Herwig Schøler; title: Roles of proteases during invasion and egress by plasmodium and toxoplasma / Timothy J. Dowse ... [et al.]; title: Roles of naturally occurring protease inhibitors in the modulation of host cell signaling and cellular invasion by trypanosoma cruzi / Julio Scharfstein and Ana Paula C.A. Lima; title: Biogenesis of and activities at the toxoplasma gondii parasitophorous vacuole membrane / Anthony P. Sinai; title: The role of host cell lysosomes in trypanosoma cruzi invasion / G. Adam Mott and Barbara A. Burleigh; title: Leishmania invasion and phagosome biogenesis / Robert Lodge and Albert Descoteaux; title: Plasmodium sporozoite passage across the sinusoidal cell layer / Ute Frevert ... [et al.]; title: Transepithelial migration by toxoplasma / Antonio Barragan and Niclas Hitziger; title: The microsporidian polar tube and its role in invasion / Frederic Delbac and Valerie Polonais; title: Intestinal invasion by entamoeba histolytica / Shahram Solaymani-Mohammadi and William A. Petri, Jr.