Abstract：
:Clones which were selected from a Toxoplasma gondii expression library with the immune serum from a T. gondii-infected rabbit, were further screened using milk and intestinal secretions from mice which had been orally infected with T. gondii cysts. The gene products of several clones reacted strongly with milk IgA and weakly with intestinal IgA. Three of these clones (5.1, 36.1, 37.4) were shown to encode a dense granule protein of 40 kDa (GRA4). The GRA4 protein co-migrates with one of the T. gondii antigens recognized by mucosal IgA. The complete nucleotide sequence of GRA4 has been obtained by cloning genomic T. gondii BamHI fragments containing the 37.4 DNA insert. The coding sequence contains no intron. The deduced amino acid sequence indicates a proline rich (12%) product with an internal hydrophobic region of 19 amino acids and a potential site of N-glycosylation. The primary translation product with a theoretical size of 36,260 Da contains a putative N-terminal signal sequence of 20 amino acids but no apparent glycolipid anchor sequence. Quantitation of the GRA4 gene and Southern blot analysis suggested that the GRA4 gene is single copy. GRA4 gene is translated in tachyzoites to yield a single mRNA species of about 1900 bases.
journal_name
Mol Biochem Parasitoljournal_title
Molecular and biochemical parasitologyauthors
Mevelec MN,Chardès T,Mercereau-Puijalon O,Bourguin I,Achbarou A,Dubremetz JF,Bout Ddoi
10.1016/0166-6851(92)90172-gsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1992-12-01 00:00:00pages
227-38issue
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0166-6851issn
1872-9428pii
0166-6851(92)90172-Gjournal_volume
56pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Two dimensional electrophoresis has been used to examine protein variation in clones of two Plasmodium falciparum isolates. Variant forms of 12 proteins were detected. Five genetically distinct parasite types were identified in one isolate, and two in the second isolate. Examination of uncloned parasites using this te...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0166-6851(85)90085-4
更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have compared a total of 44 recognition sites for 12 restriction endonucleases on the 20 kilobase pair maxi-circle of kinetoplast DNA from nine Trypanosoma brucei stocks, four which are known to be infective to man (tow 'gambiense' and two 'rhodesiense' variants). In addition to five polymorphic sites, these DNAs d...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0166-6851(81)90011-6
更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Topoisomerases are enzymes that participate in many cellular functions involving topological manipulation of DNA strands. There are two types of topoisomerases in the cell: (a) type I topoisomerases; and (b) type II topoisomerases (topo II). Previously we have cloned and sequenced the gene encoding Trypanosoma cruzi t...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0166-6851(98)00066-8
更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Given the growing appreciation of serious health sequelae from widespread Trichomonas vaginalis infection, new tools are needed to study the parasite's genetic diversity. To this end we have identified and characterized a panel of 21 microsatellites and six single-copy genes from the T. vaginalis genome, using seven l...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.08.006
更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Earlier studies in this laboratory had shown that the malarial parasite can synthesize heme de novo and inhibition of the pathway leads to death of the parasite. It has been proposed that the pathway for the biosynthesis of heme in Plasmodium falciparum is unique involving three different cellular compartments, namely...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.06.012
更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The capacity for rapid localization of epitope-tagged or fluorescent fusion proteins in cells is an important tool for biological discovery and functional analysis. For Trypanosoma cruzi, the protozoan parasite that causes human Chagas disease, visualization of ectopically-expressed proteins in the clinically-relevant...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2015.02.001
更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:While genes encoding antigens and other highly polymorphic proteins are commonly found in subtelomeres, it is unusual to find a small family of housekeeping genes in these regions. We found that in the species Plasmodium falciparum only, a non-subtelomeric acyl-CoA synthetase (ACS) gene has expanded into a family of d...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2006.06.004
更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The sequence of two fragments derived from the variable region of the kinetoplast maxicircle of Trypanosoma brucei has been determined. One fragment (1334 nucleotides, situated immediately upstream of the 12S and 9S ribosomal RNA genes) consists of non-repetitious DNA, which does not hybridize to other maxicircle regi...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0166-6851(88)90026-6
更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cathepsin B-like cysteine protease (cbl) genes produce the most abundant mRNAs ( approximately 16%) detected in the adult female intestine of the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus. CBL enzymes appear to digest host proteins and are vaccine candidates for immune control of H. contortus and potentially other paras...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.06.010
更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The genus Cryptosporidium includes several species of intestinal protozoan parasites which multiply in intestinal epithelial cells. The impact of this infection on the transcriptome of cultured host cells was investigated using DNA microarray hybridizations. The expression of 14 genes found to be consistently up- or d...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2009.07.004
更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Subtilisin-like proteases of malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum (PfSUB1, 2 and 3) are expressed at late asexual blood stages. PfSUB1 and 2 are considered important drug targets due to their essentiality for parasite blood stages and role in merozoite egress and invasion of erythrocytes. We have earlier shown the i...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2013.09.006
更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Replication of kinetoplast DNA minicircles in Crithidia fasciculata occurs by a unidirectional mechanism involving continuous synthesis of one strand (L strand) and discontinuous synthesis of the complementary strand (H strand). L-strands are initiated by RNA priming at alternate origins (A and B) resulting in daughte...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0166-6851(01)00272-9
更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The principal constituents of the free amino acid pool in Leishmania tropica promastigotes include alanine, glycine, serine, threonine, alpha-aminobutyric acid and ethanolamine. Changes in levels of the pool constituents during starvation, nutrient supplementation and treatment with a metabolic inhibitor (sodium fluor...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0166-6851(83)90056-7
更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cystic echinococcosis in humans and livestock animals is caused by infection with the cestode parasite Echinococcus granulosus. A number of genotypes of the parasite (designated G1-G10) are known to exist, with the genotype cluster G1-G3 and genotype G6 being responsible for the majority of humans infections. A recomb...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2012.02.005
更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The exoglycosidase, beta-N-acetyl-D-hexosaminidase was purified 600-fold from the muscle-stage larvae (L1) of Trichinella spiralis. On sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), the purified enzyme-active fraction contained 4 polypeptides with apparent molecular weights of 100,000, 68,000, 5...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0166-6851(88)90145-4
更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The heat shock response was studied as a model for control of gene expression and protein synthesis in Giardia lamblia. Cultured trophozoites were metabolically labelled with [35S]methionine, and proteins were analysed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and fluorography. A temperature shift from 37 degrees C to...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0166-6851(88)90061-8
更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Recent investigations into quinoline and phenanthrene methanol resistance in Plasmodium falciparum have described a linkage between amplification of the mdr homologue pfmdr1 and decreased susceptibility to mefloquine (MQ) and halofantrine (HF). We have examined the current theories on cross-resistance patterns and pfm...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0166-6851(96)02746-6
更新日期：1996-12-02 00:00:00
abstract：:Reversible acetylation of core histones plays an important role in transcriptional regulation, cell cycle progression and developmental events. The acetylation state of histones is controlled by a dynamic equilibrium between activities of histone acetylase and deacetylase enzymes. Histone deacetylase (HDAC) was recent...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0166-6851(98)00177-7
更新日期：1999-03-15 00:00:00
abstract：:The microaerophilic parasite Trichomonas vaginalis is a causative agent of painful vaginitis or urethritis, termed trichomoniasis, and can also cause preterm delivery or stillbirth. Treatment of trichomoniasis is almost exclusively based on the nitroimidazole drugs metronidazole and tinidazole. Metronidazole resistanc...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2012.03.003
更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Post-transcriptional regulation is a key feature controlling gene expression in the protozoan parasite Leishmania. The nine-nucleotide paraflagellar rod regulatory element (PRE) in the 3'UTR of Leishmania mexicana PFR2 is both necessary and sufficient for the observed 10-fold higher level of PFR2 mRNA in promastigotes...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.10.001
更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Conserved amongst all eukaryotes is a family of mitochondrial carrier proteins (SLC25A) responsible for the import of various solutes across the inner mitochondrial membrane. We previously reported that the human parasite Trypanosoma brucei possesses 26 SLC25A proteins (TbMCPs) amongst which two, TbMCP11 and TbMCP8, w...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2020.111275
更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Incorporation of 32Pi into organic phosphate by mitochondria of Cotugnia digonopora was supported maximally by malate. Fumarate and succinate induced lower but significant production of ATP. Pyruvate, alpha-ketoglutarate and oxalacetate proved to be poor substrates and citrate and isocitrate had no effect. A net phosp...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0166-6851(84)90066-5
更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Profilins are the key regulators of actin dynamics in all eukaryotic cells. However, little information is available on their biochemical properties and functions in kinetoplastids, such as Trypanosoma and Leishmania. We show here that Leishmania parasites express only one homolog of profilin (LdPfn), which catalyzes ...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2020.111280
更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Leishmania major aquaglyceroporin (AQP1) is an adventitious metalloid channel that allows the bidirectional movement of arsenite and antimonite. Here we demonstrate that AQP1 is subjected to proteasome-dependent degradation. Treatment of Leishmania promastigotes with the proteasome inhibitor MG132 resulted in increase...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2015.07.005
更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometry (EPR) techniques revealed a complex set of redox components in intact respiring cells of Tritrichomonas foetus, an aerotolerant anaerobic protozoon which lacks mitochondria. One of the two main systems of terminal respiration of this organism is the hydrogenosomal system, w...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0166-6851(80)90047-x
更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:As a start to understanding the importance of intracellular proteolysis in the protozoon Leishmania mexicana, the parasite proteasome has been purified and characterised. The L. mexicana proteasome is similar to proteasomes from other eukaryotes. It is soluble, and the 20S form has a mass of around 670 kDa, composed o...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0166-6851(99)00110-3
更新日期：1999-09-20 00:00:00
abstract：:A 25-kb CpFAS1 gene from Cryptosporidium parvum has been engineered and expressed as five individual maltose-binding protein (MBP)-fusion proteins: an N-terminal loading unit, three fatty acyl elongation modules, and a C-terminal reductase. Enzymatic activities of all domains (except the reductase) were individually a...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2003.11.011
更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Leishmania parasites cycle between the alimentary tract of a sandfly vector as free-living promastigotes and the acidified phagolysosomes of the vertebrate host macrophage as aflagellated amastigotes. The differentiation process can be mimicked in host-free culture by switching promastigotes (e.g. 25 degrees C, neutra...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.molbiopara.2008.12.012
更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The livers of chickens maintained on a diet containing an effective in vivo level (70 ppm) of arprinocid, an anticoccidial agent, were found to contain 0.64 ppm of this drug and 0.33 ppm of a metabolite, arprinocid-1-N-oxide. When arprinocid was tested against Eimeria tenella in cultures of chick kidney epithelial cel...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0166-6851(80)90051-1
更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites invade human red blood cells and immediately begin making significant alterations to the structure of the erythrocyte. These alterations facilitate the movement of nutrients into, and waste products and parasite-derived proteins out of the cell to meet the needs of the growing p...
journal_title：Molecular and biochemical parasitology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/0166-6851(95)02575-8
更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00
