title: Too Much Sugar Puts a Parasite in Jeopardy.
abstract: Toxoplasma gondii and other coccidian parasites accumulate starch-like amylopectin stores whose functional significance is unclear. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Uboldi et al. (2015) present a pioneering investigation into a signaling cascade with a pivotal role in amylopectin metabolism and transmission of encysted parasites during chronic infection.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology of Toxoplasma, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Université de Lille, 1 rue du Professeur Calmette, 59 000 Lille, France. Electronic address: stan.tomavo@pasteur-lille.fr.
authors.forename: Stanislas
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tomavo
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology*