Sustained rhoptry docking and discharge requires Toxoplasma gondii intraconoidal microtubule-associated proteins

Abstract In Apicomplexa, rhoptry discharge is essential for invasion and involves an apical vesicle (AV) docking one or two rhoptries to a macromolecular secretory apparatus. Toxoplasma gondii is armed with 10–12 rhoptries and 5-6 microtubule-associated vesicles (MVs) presumably for iterative rhoptr...

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Main Authors: Nicolas Dos Santos Pacheco, Albert Tell i Puig, Amandine Guérin, Matthew Martinez, Bohumil Maco, Nicolò Tosetti, Estefanía Delgado-Betancourt, Matteo Lunghi, Boris Striepen, Yi-Wei Chang, Dominique Soldati-Favre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44631-y