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  • noun biology A specialized secretory organelle of some protozoans

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Examples

  • We have shown that 4-BPB is a potent reagent that resolves two previously inseparable aspects of invasion, microneme and rhoptry secretion.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009

  • Virtually nothing is known about the triggers and mechanism of rhoptry secretion or the means by which rhoptry and microneme proteins associate.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009

  • This strongly argues that micronemes do not need to fuse to rhoptry necks to secrete and that formation of the MJ complex, a mix of microneme and rhoptry neck proteins, most likely occurs at the parasite surface.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009

  • This suggests that the drug affected one or more parasite proteins involved in motility but unrelated to microneme secretion.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009

  • This drug specifically blocked rhoptry secretion but not microneme secretion, thus effectively showing that the two processes can be de-coupled.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009

  • To assay for the ability of microneme proteins to get to the parasite surface, parasites on coverslips coated with 5% FBS were fixed after 30 minutes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009

  • To determine if the inhibition of gliding motility might be due to a block in microneme secretion, we looked at the secretion of microneme protein 2 (MIC2) both constitutively and in the presence of 1% ethanol and ionophore A23187.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009

  • This drug specifically blocked rhoptry secretion but not microneme secretion, thus effectively showing that the two processes can be de-coupled.

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  • Micronemes are known to be involved in parasite gliding motility, but microneme secretion was unaffected at drug concentrations that affected motility.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009

  • This provides new information about the initial secretion events: microneme proteins are able to be secreted onto the parasite surface despite the inhibition of rhoptry secretion.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009

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