Toxoplasma control of host apoptosis: the art of not biting too hard the hand that feeds you
May 30, 2015
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that is able to infect a multitude of different vertebrate hosts and can survive in virtually any nucleated cell. Here, the authors discuss the article "Toxoplasma gondii inhibits cytochrome c-induced caspase activation in its host cell by interference with holo-apoptosome assembly" by Graumann et al. (2015, Microbial Cell).