期刊
MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY
卷 137, 期 1, 页码 75-79出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.04.015
关键词
schistosoma; helminth; electroporation; RNA; transgene
资金
- NIAID NIH HHS [N01-AI-55270] Funding Source: Medline
Despite their significance in human and veterinary medicine, and the ability to maintain the parasites in the mouse, relatively little functional detail is available regarding the biology of schistosomes. This deficit is due largely to the lack of well-developed molecular tools for manipulating gene expression in these parasites. Here, we describe an electroporation protocol that provides a routine approach for efficiently introducing nucleic acids into schistosomes. Using luciferase-encoding RNA for electroporation, and luciferase activity as a read-out, we established 400 mug/ml of RNA, and a 20 ms pulse at 125 V using a square wave electroporation generator to be optimal for electroporating schistosomes. Under these conditions schistosomula from 1 hr to 18 hr old could be successfully electroporated, the majority of parasites within a population expressed the introduced RNA, and acute mortality was negligible. Electroporation, as described here, makes possible experimental studies using transiently expressed constitutively active and/or dominant negative mutant proteins, etc. In addition, the finding that electroporation can be used to introduce RNA into schistosomula raises the possibility of using this approach to introduce either DNA constructs or dsRNA sequences, both of which might be expected to have longer-term, ideally inheritable, effects. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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