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Nicole D. Marino
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
Michael W. Panas
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2973-736X
Magdalena Franco
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Current address: Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
Terence C. Theisen
Roles Data curation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2874-0559
Adit Naor
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4770-3099
Suchita Rastogi
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-1777
Kerry R. Buchholz
Roles Resources, Writing - review & editing
Current address: Department of Infectious Diseases, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
Hernan A. Lorenzi
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0910-7894
John C. Boothroyd
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9719-745XAbstract
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that can infect virtually all nucleated cells in warm-blooded animals. The ability of Toxoplasma tachyzoites to infect and successfully manipulate its host is dependent on its ability to transport “GRA” proteins that originate in unique secretory organelles called dense...