Hot off the press: parasite researchers melt down proteins to understand their roles in infection
Vivian Siegel
Much like humans, plants, and bacteria, the single-celled parasite Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) uses calcium as a messenger to coordinate important cellular processes. But while the messenger is the same, the communication pathways that form around calcium differ significantly between organisms. “Since Toxoplasma parasites are so divergent from us, they have evolved their own sets of proteins that are […] The post Hot off the press: parasite researchers melt down proteins to understand their ro