Have It Your Way: How Polymorphic, Injected Kinases and Pseudokinases Enable Toxoplasma to Subvert Host Defenses

The arginine-rich N-terminal domain of ROP18 is necessary for vacuole targeting and virulence ofToxoplasma gondii

(2012) Sarah J. Fentress et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Globally diverse Toxoplasma gondii isolates comprise six major clades originating from a small number of distinct ancestral lineages

(2012) C. Su et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Toxoplasma gondii Pseudokinase Inhibits Host IRG Resistance Proteins

(2012) Martin C. Fleckenstein et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Rhoptry Proteins ROP18 and ROP5 Mediate Toxoplasma gondii Evasion of the Murine, But Not the Human, Interferon-Gamma Response

(2012) Wendy Niedelman et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The Polymorphic Pseudokinase ROP5 Controls Virulence in Toxoplasma gondii by Regulating the Active Kinase ROP18

(2012) Michael S. Behnke et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Toxoplasma Polymorphic Effectors Determine Macrophage Polarization and Intestinal Inflammation

(2011) Kirk D.C. Jensen et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

ATF6β is a host cellular target of theToxoplasma gondiivirulence factor ROP18

(2011) Masahiro Yamamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

Strain-Dependent Host Transcriptional Responses to Toxoplasma Infection Are Largely Conserved in Mammalian and Avian Hosts

(2011) Yi-Ching Ong et al.   PLoS One

Polymorphic family of injected pseudokinases is paramount in Toxoplasma virulence

(2011) M. L. Reese et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Virulence differences in Toxoplasma mediated by amplification of a family of polymorphic pseudokinases

(2011) M. S. Behnke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Toxoplasma gondii Rhoptry Kinase ROP16 Activates STAT3 and STAT6 Resulting in Cytokine Inhibition and Arginase-1-Dependent Growth Control

(2011) Barbara A. Butcher et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Integrative Genomic Approaches Highlight a Family of Parasite-Specific Kinases that Regulate Host Responses

(2010) Lucia Peixoto et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Phosphorylation of Immunity-Related GTPases by a Toxoplasma gondii-Secreted Kinase Promotes Macrophage Survival and Virulence

(2010) Sarah J. Fentress et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Coordinated loading of IRG resistance GTPases on to the Toxoplasma gondii parasitophorous vacuole

(2010) Aliaksandr Khaminets et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

ToxoplasmaRhoptry Protein 16 (ROP16) Subverts Host Function by Direct Tyrosine Phosphorylation of STAT6

(2010) Yi-Ching Ong et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A single polymorphic amino acid onToxoplasma gondiikinase ROP16 determines the direct and strain-specific activation of Stat3

(2009) Masahiro Yamamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

A Helical Membrane-Binding Domain Targets theToxoplasmaROP2 Family to the Parasitophorous Vacuole

(2009) Michael L. Reese et al.   TRAFFIC

Ocular Sequelae of Congenital Toxoplasmosis in Brazil Compared with Europe

(2008) Ruth E. Gilbert et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Kiss and spit: the dual roles of Toxoplasma rhoptries

(2007) John C. Boothroyd et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY