This Week In Parasitism

Vincent, Dickson, and Daniel discuss how a secreted protein from the protozoan parasite Theileria transforms its host cells via a cellular proto-oncogene. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Daniel Griffin Links for this episode: Leishmania (TWiP #14) Transformation by a prolyl isomerase (Nature) Theileria.org Prolyl isomerase (Wikipedia) Image from Transformation & Oncogenesis Letters read on TWiP 88 Contact Send your questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twip@twiv.tv Subscribe Subscribe to TWiP (free) in iTunes, by the RSS feed or by email