Constitutive upregulation of transcription factors underlies permissive bradyzoite differentiation in a natural isolate of Toxoplasma gondii.
Jing Xia, Yong Fu, Wanyi Huang…·L. David Sibley
This paper identifies a Toxoplasma gondii isolate that constitutively expresses bradyzoite regulators and readily differentiates into mature bradyzoites under stress, providing a new in vitro model for studying chronic infection.