Toxoplasma gondii resides in a vacuole that avoids fusion with host cell endocytic and exocytic vesicular trafficking pathways

DG Mordue, S Håkansson, I Niesman… - Experimental …, 1999 - Elsevier
Mordue, DG, Håkansson, S., Niesman, I., and Sibley, LD 1999. Toxoplasma gondii resides
in a vacuole that avoids fusion with host cell endocytic and exocytic vesicular trafficking
pathways. Experimental Parasitology92, 87–99. Toxoplasma gondii actively penetrates its
vertebrate host cell to establish a nonfusigenic compartment called the parasitophorous
vacuole (PV) that has previously been characterized primarily in phagocytic cells. To
determine the fate of this unique compartment in nonphagocytic cells, we examined the …