Identification of Toxoplasma gondii genes responsive to the host immune response during in vivo infection.

ABSTRACT: Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoa parasite that causes the disease toxoplasmosis. It resides within host cells in a parasitophorous vacuole distinct from the host cell endocytic system. T. gondii was used as a model to investigate how obligate intracellular parasites alter their gene expression in response to the host immune response during infection compared to growth in host cells in vitro. While bacterial pathogens clearly alter gene expression to adapt to the host environment during infection, the degree to which the external environment affects gene expression by obligate intracellular pathogens sequestered within host cells is less clear. The global transcriptome of T. gondii was analyzed in vivo in the presence and absence of the IFN-γ-dependent host innate imm

SUBMITTER: Skariah S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3468626 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature