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SUBMITTER: Harding CR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6344517 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190123 1
Single-celled protists use elaborate cytoskeletal structures, including arrays of microtubules at the cell periphery, to maintain polarity and rigidity. The obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii has unusually stable cortical microtubules beneath the alveoli, a network of flattened membrane vesicles that subtends the plasmalemma. However, anchoring of microtubules along alveolar membranes is not understood. Here, we show that GAPM1a, an integral membrane protein of the alveoli, plays ...[more]