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A helminth cestode parasite express an estrogen-binding protein resembling a classic nuclear estrogen receptor.

Abstract：

:The role of an estrogen-binding protein similar to a known mammalian estrogen receptor (ER) is described in the estradiol-dependent reproduction of the helminth parasite Taenia crassiceps. Previous results have shown that 17-β-estradiol induces a concentration-dependent increase in bud number of in vitro cultured cysticerci. This effect is inhibited when parasites are also incubated in the presence of an ER binding-inhibitor (tamoxifen). RT-PCR assays using specific oligonucleotides of the most conserved ER sequences, showed expression by the parasite of a mRNA band of molecular weight and sequence corresponding to an ER. Western blot assays revealed reactivity with a 66 kDa protein corresponding to the parasite ER protein. Tamoxifen treatment strongly reduced the production of the T. crassiceps ER-like protein. Antibody specificity was demonstrated by immunoprecipitating the total parasite protein extract with anti-ER-antibodies. Cross-contamination by host cells was discarded by flow cytometry analysis. ER was specifically detected on cells expressing paramyosin, a specific helminth cell marker. Parasite cells expressing the ER-like protein were located by confocal microscopy in the subtegumental tissue exclusively. Analysis of the ER-like protein by bidimensional electrophoresis and immunoblot identified a specific protein of molecular weight and isoelectric point similar to a vertebrates ER. Sequencing of the spot produced a small fragment of protein similar to the mammalian nuclear ER. Together these results show that T. crassiceps expresses an ER-like protein which activates the budding of T. crassiceps cysticerci in vitro. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of an ER-like protein in parasites. This finding may have strong implications in the fields of host-parasite co-evolution as well as in sex-associated susceptibility to this infection, and could be an important target for the design of new drugs.

journal_name

Steroids

journal_title

Steroids

authors

Ibarra-Coronado EG,Escobedo G,Nava-Castro K,Jesús Ramses CR,Hernández-Bello R,García-Varela M,Ambrosio JR,Reynoso-Ducoing O,Fonseca-Liñán R,Ortega-Pierres G,Pavón L,Hernández ME,Morales-Montor J

doi

10.1016/j.steroids.2011.05.003

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1149-59

issue

10-11

eissn

0039-128X

issn

1878-5867

pii

S0039-128X(11)00168-1

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A helminth cestode parasite express an estrogen-binding protein resembling a classic nuclear estrogen receptor.