MicrobiologyMay 8, 2006 2:38 pm
It’s widely known that parasites are exceptionally prolific in finding ways to scavenge nutrients from the host, but some of them are more than this… The parasite Toxoplasma gondii has an extremely cool way of getting its when within the host cell
In a paper published in Cell Coppens et al describe how Toxoplasma harvests lysosomes (full of nutrients) within the cell using the microtubular cell machinery from the host!.
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