Two-dimensional gel analysis of haemolymph proteins from Plasmodium-melanizing and -non-melanizing strains of Anopheles gambiae.

Abstract:

:Haemolymph polypeptides from Plasmodium-refractory and -susceptible mosquitoes were compared by one- and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The refractory strain of Anopheles gambiae kills malaria parasites by a humoral melanization mechanism whereas the parasites develop normally in susceptible mosquitoes. The two strains respond in a similar manner to carboxy-methyl-Sephadex beads that have been injected into the thoracic haemocoel, i.e. beads are strongly melanized in refractory but not susceptible mosquitoes. Protein profiles were compared between strains following cold shock (naïve control), saline injection and Sephadex bead injection. Using the susceptible naïve control as the standard, eight constitutively expressed polypeptides were specific to naïve susceptible mosquitoes while twelve other spots were reduced, enhanced or specific to refractory mosquitoes. Several of the strain-specific spots probably comprise related pairs (one in each strain) which vary only in isoelectric focusing point. Nine spots were induced by sham injection or by an injection of beads or saline, but none was reproducibly different between the strains. Amino acid sequence analysis of one of the refractory strain-specific spots identified it as AgSp14D1, an A. gambiae infection-responsive serine protease that is most similar to the Drosophila gene easter and Manduca prophenoloxidase activating enzyme. This gene maps to polytene chromosome division 14, which has been implicated in the melanization phenotype by quantitative trait loci mapping.

journal_name

Insect Mol Biol

journal_title

Insect molecular biology

authors

Chun J,McMaster J,Han Y,Schwartz A,Paskewitz SM

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2583.2000.00157.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2000-02-01 00:00:00

pages

39-45

issue

1

eissn

0962-1075

issn

1365-2583

pii

imb157

journal_volume

9

pub_type

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