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Toxoplasma rearranges the host cell surface to trigger its own invasion
Whitehead Institute researchers report that Toxoplasma gathers the host's sugar-coated proteins into cholesterol-dependent patches that trigger its own entry. Blocking those patches impaired invasion, so the host membrane becomes a candidate drug target.
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