Franzen, Caspar (2004) Microsporidia: how can they invade other cells? TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY, 20 (6). pp. 275-279. ISSN 1471-4922
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Microsporidia are obligate intracellular eukaryotic parasites that have a distinctive mechanism for infecting host cells. Microsporidian spores contain a long coiled polar tube that extrudes from the spores and can penetrate the membranes of new host cells. The contents of the spores are then forced through the tubes into the host cell cytoplasm. Recent studies have shown that microsporidia also gain access to host cells by phagocytosis. However, after phagocytosis, the microsporidian polar tube is used to escape from the maturing phagosomes and to infect the cytoplasm of host cells.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SPORE INVASION TUBE; ENCEPHALITOZOON-CUNICULI; PLASMA-MEMBRANE; DISCHARGE; INTESTINALIS; EUKARYOTES; SEQUENCE; FUSION; RNA; |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Innere Medizin I |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2021 06:03 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2021 06:03 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/37630 |
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