Phosphatidylthreonine: An exclusive phospholipid regulating calcium homeostasis and virulence in a parasitic protist

Authors:

Ruben D. Arroyo-Olarte and Nishith Gupta

doi: 10.15698/mic2016.05.496
Volume 3, pp. 189 to 190, published 02/05/2016.

Affiliations:

Department of Molecular Parasitology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

Keywords: 

Toxoplasma gondii, Phosphatidylthreonine,Phosphatidylserine, Optogenetics, Gene-encoded calcium indicator, Metabolically attenuated vaccine, Parasite virulence, Calcium homeostasis.

Corresponding Author(s):

Nishith Gupta, PhD, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Humboldt University, Philippstrasse 13, House 14, Berlin, Germany; Telephone: +49-30-20936404; Fax: +49-30-20936051 Gupta.Nishith@staff.hu-berlin.de

Conflict of interest statement:

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest pertaining to this work.

Please cite this article as:

Ruben D. Arroyo-Olarte and Nishith Gupta (2016). Phosphatidylthreonine: An exclusive phospholipid regulating calcium homeostasis and virulence in a parasitic protist. Microbial Cell 3(5): 189-190. doi: 10.15698/mic2016.05.496

© 2016 Arroyo-Olarte and Gupta. This is an open-access article released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are acknowledged.

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