Featured Publications
Hunt, A., Wagener, J., Kent, R., Carmeille, R., Russell, M., Peddie, C., Collinson, L., Heaslip, A., Ward, G.E., Treeck, M. (2019). Differential requirements of cyclase associated protein (CAP) for actin turnover during the lytic cycle of Toxoplasma
gondii. eLife 8: pii:350598. PMCID: PMC6785269
Powell, C.J., Ramaswamy, R., Kelsen, A., Hamelin, D.J., Warshaw, D.M., Bosch, J., Burke, J.E., Ward, G.E., and Boulanger, M.J. (2018). Structural and mechanistic insights into the function of the unconventional class-XIV myosin, MyoA, from Toxoplasma gondii. PNAS 115: E10548-10555. PMCID: PMC6233092
Whitelaw, J.A., Latorre-Barragan, F., Gras, S., Pall, G.S., Leung, J.M., Heaslip., A., Egarter, S., Andenmatten, N., Nelson, S.R., Warshaw, D.M, Ward, G.E. and Meissner, M. (2017). Surface attachment, promoted by the actomyosin
system of Toxoplasma gondii is important for efficient gliding motility and invasion. BMC Biology 15: 1-23. PMCID: PMC5242020
Krishnamurthy, S.K., Deng, B., del Rio, R., Buchholz, K.R., Treck, M., Urban, S., Boothroyd, J., Lam, Y.-W.,
Ward., G.E. (2016). Not a simple tether: Binding of Toxoplasma gondii AMA1 to RON2 during invasion protects AMA1 from rhomboid-mediated cleavage and leads to dephosphorylation of its cytosolic tail. mBio 13: e00754-16. PMCID:
PMC5021801
Leung, J.M., Tran, F, Pathak, R.B., Poupart, S., Heaslip, A.T., Ballif, B.A., Westwood, N.J.* and Ward, G.E.* (2014) Identification of T. gondii Myosin Light Chain-1 as a Direct Target of TachypleginA-2, a Small-Molecule
Inhibitor of Parasite Motility and Invasion. PLOS ONE 9: e98056. PMCID: PMC4043638
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