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PARASITES & VECTORS
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-018-3266-x
Keywords
Animal parasitic nematode; Secretome; Adhesives; Histones; Trypsin inhibitor-like
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI grant [26292178, 16H04722, 15K14503]
- AMED [18fk0108009h0003]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H04722, 15K14503] Funding Source: KAKEN
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BackgroundParasites excrete and secrete a wide range of molecules that act as the primary interface with their hosts and play critical roles in establishing parasitism during different stages of infection. Strongyloides venezuelensis is a gastrointestinal parasite of rats that is widely used as a laboratory model and is known to produce both soluble and insoluble (adhesive) secretions during its parasitic stages. However, little is known about the constituents of these secretions.ResultsUsing mass spectrometry, we identified 436 proteins from the infective third-stage larvae (iL3s) and 196 proteins from the parasitic females of S. venezuelensis. The proteins that were secreted by the iL3s were enriched with peptidase activity, embryo development and the oxidation-reduction process, while those of the parasitic females were associated with glycolysis, DNA binding (histones) and other unknown functions. Trypsin inhibitor-like domain-containing proteins were identified as the main component of the adhesive secretion from parasitic females. An absence of secretion signals in many of the proteins indicated that they are secreted via non-classical secretion pathways.ConclusionsWe found that S. venezuelensis secretes a wide range of proteins to establish parasitism. This includes proteins that have previously been identified as being involved in parasitism in other helminths as well as proteins that are unique to this species. These findings provide insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying Strongyloides parasitism.
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