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TROPICAL MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed8050285
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Plasmodium knowlesi; merozoite surface protein-1; genetic diversity; clustering; block IV
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This study examined the genetic diversity of pkmsp-1 gene in Malaysian Plasmodium knowlesi isolates. The full-length pkmsp-1 sequence was characterized and compared with sequences from Malaysia Borneo and Thailand. The results revealed that the pkmsp-1 gene undergoes purifying/negative selection and forms three clusters.
The genetic diversity of pkmsp-1 of Malaysian Plasmodium knowlesi isolates was studied recently. However, the study only included three relatively older strains from Peninsular Malaysia and focused mainly on the conserved blocks of this gene. In this study, the full-length pkmsp-1 sequence of recent P. knowlesi isolates from Peninsular Malaysia was characterized, along with Malaysian Borneo and Thailand pkmsp-1 sequences that were retrieved from GenBank. Genomic DNA of P. knowlesi was extracted from human blood specimens and the pkmsp-1 gene was PCR-amplified, cloned, and sequenced. The sequences were analysed for genetic diversity, departure from neutrality, and geographical clustering. The pkmsp-1 gene was found to be under purifying/negative selection and grouped into three clusters via a neighbour-joining tree and neighbour net inferences. Of the four polymorphic blocks in pkmsp-1, block IV, was most polymorphic, with the highest insertion-deletion (indel) sites. Two allelic families were identified in block IV, thereby highlighting the importance of this block as a promising genotyping marker for the multiplicity of infection study of P. knowlesi malaria. A single locus marker may provide an alternate, simpler method to type P. knowlesi in a population.
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