Secreted proteomes of different developmental stages of the gastrointestinal nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis

Sotillo, J. et al. (2014) Secreted proteomes of different developmental stages of the gastrointestinal nematode Nippostrongylus brasiliensis. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 13(10), pp. 2736-2751. (doi: 10.1074/mcp.M114.038950) (PMID:24994561) (PMCID:PMC4188999)

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Abstract

Hookworms infect more than 700 million people worldwide and cause more morbidity than most other human parasitic infections. Nippostrongylus brasiliensis (the rat hookworm) has been used as an experimental model for human hookworm because of its similar life cycle and ease of maintenance in laboratory rodents. Adult N. brasiliensis, like the human hookworm, lives in the intestine of the host and releases excretory/secretory products (ESP), which represent the major host-parasite interface. We performed a comparative proteomic analysis of infective larval (L3) and adult worm stages of N. brasiliensis to gain insights into the molecular bases of host-parasite relationships and determine whether N. brasiliensis could indeed serve as an appropriate model for studying human hookworm infections. Proteomic data were matched to a transcriptomic database assembled from 245,874,892 Illumina reads from different developmental stages (eggs, L3, L4, and adult) of N. brasiliensis yielding∼18,426 unigenes with 39,063 possible isoform transcripts. From this analysis, 313 proteins were identified from ESPs by LC-MS/MS—52 in the L3 and 261 in the adult worm. Most of the proteins identified in the study were stage-specific (only 13 proteins were shared by both stages); in particular, two families of proteins—astacin metalloproteases and CAP-domain containing SCP/TAPS—were highly represented in both L3 and adult ESP. These protein families are present in most nematode groups, and where studied, appear to play roles in larval migration and evasion of the host's immune response. Phylogenetic analyses of defined protein families and global gene similarity analyses showed that N. brasiliensis has a greater degree of conservation with human hookworm than other model nematodes examined. These findings validate the use of N. brasiliensis as a suitable parasite for the study of human hookworm infections in a tractable animal model.

Item Type:Articles
Additional Information:This work was supported by a program grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC), the Wellcome Trust, and the Health Research Council of New Zealand. AL and CC are supported by a NHMRC principal research fellowship and early-career research fellowship, respectively.
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Maizels, Professor Rick
Authors: Sotillo, J., Sanchez-Flores, A., Cantacessi, C., Harcus, Y., Pickering, D., Bouchery, T., Camberis, M., Tang, S.-C., Giacomin, P., Mulvenna, J., Mitreva, M., Berriman, M., LeGros, G., Maizels, R. M., and Loukas, A.
College/School:College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Infection & Immunity
Journal Name:Molecular and Cellular Proteomics
Publisher:American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
ISSN:1535-9476
ISSN (Online):1535-9484

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