Journal
PARASITOLOGY
Volume 147, Issue 9, Pages 1008-1018Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182020000657
Keywords
Diversity; drug susceptibility; isolates; parasite-host interaction
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [31003A_163230]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_163230] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Giardia lambliais a causative agent of persistent diarrhoea widespread in regions with low hygienic standards. Laboratory research is based on cloned lines issuing from various patient isolates typed in the late 1980s and 90s using restriction analysis and serology. In the present study, we compared the well-characterized strain WBC6 with another clone of the parent WB isolate termed WBA1 and with a clone from another isolate, GS/M-83-H7, using shotgun mass spectrometry proteomics. We identified 398 proteins differentially expressed between the GS and both WB isolates and 97 proteins differentially expressed between the two WB isolates. We investigated the expression levels of the predominant variant-specific surface proteins (VSPs) in each clone and matched the previously described major VSPs of each strain to the corresponding open reading frame sequences identified by whole-genome sequencing efforts. Furthermore, since the original WB isolate comes from a patient treated with metronidazole, we compared the susceptibilities of the strains to nitro compounds, as well the expression levels of enzymes involved in nitro reduction and on the corresponding enzyme activities and found distinct differences between the three strains.
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