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Entry of Trypanosoma cruzi into eukaryotic cells
1Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, New England Medical Center Hospital, Tuffs University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111.
Infectious Agents and Disease
|June 1, 1992
Abstract:
Trypanosoma cruzi invades a variety of mammalian cells by receptor-ligand interactions. In this review two T. cruzi carbohydrate-binding proteins, neuraminidase/trans-sialidase and penetrin, are discussed as possibly playing a role in parasite entry into mammalian cells.