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September 27, 2024mBioOpen Access

The GPI sidechain of Toxoplasma gondii inhibits parasite pathogenesis

Julia A. Alvarez Elisabet Gas‐Pascual S.S. Malhi Juan Camilo Sánchez‐Arcila Ferdinand Ngale Njume Hanke van der Wel Yanlin Zhao Laura García–López Gabriella Ceron Jasmine Posada Scott P. Souza George Yap Christopher M. West Kirk D.C. Jensen

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Glycosylphosphatidylinositols (GPIs) are highly conserved anchors for eukaryotic cell surface proteins. The apicomplexan parasite,

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synapsesocial.com/papers/68e572b9b6db643587512b44 https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00527-24

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