Immuno-cross-reactivity of CUT-1 and cuticlin epitopes between Ascaris lumbricoides, Caenorhabditis elegans, and Heterorhabditis

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Favre, R ^a   Cermola, M ^a   Paiva Nunes, C ^a   Hermann, R ^b   Muller M ^b   Bazzicalupo, P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ascaris; C. elegans; CUT 1 like proteins; Cuticlin; High pressure freezing; Parasitic nematodes

Indexed keywords

CUTICLIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGENICITY; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CROSS REACTION; IMMUNOGENICITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; ASCARIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HETERORHABDITIS; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032170322     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1998.4012     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Bazzicalupo, P. (1983) Caenorhabditis elegans: A model system for the study of nematodes, in Guardiola, J., Luzzatto, L., and Trager, W. (Eds.), Molecular Biology of Parasites, pp. 73-92, Raven Press, New York.
2. Betschart, B., Marti, S., and Glaser, M. (1990) Antibodies against the cuticlin of Ascaris suum cross-react with epicuticular structures of filarial parasites, Acta Tropica 47, 331-338.
3. Brenner, S. (1973) The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, Genetics 77, 71-94.
4. Cox, G. N., Kusch, M., and Edgar, R. S. (1981) Cuticle of Caenorhabditis elegans: Its isolation and partial characterization, J. Cell Biol. 90, 7-17.
5. De Giorgi, C., De Luca, F., Di Vito, M., and Lamberti, F. (1997) Modulation of expression at the level of spiging of cut-1 RNA in the infective second-stage juvenile of the plant parasitic nematode Meloidogyne artiella. Mol. Gen. Genet. 253, 589-598.
6. Favre, R., Hermann, R., Cermola, M., Hohenberg, H., Muller, M., and Bazzicalupo, P. (1995) Immuno-gold-labelling of CUT-1, CUT-2 and cuticlin epitopes in Caenorhabditis elegans and Heterorhabditis sp. processed by high pressure freezing and freeze-substitution, J. Submicrosc. Cytol. Pathol. 27, 341-347.
7. Fujimoto, D., and Kanaya, S. (1973) Cuticlin a noncollagen structural protein from Ascaris cuticle, Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 157, 1-6.
8. Hohenberg, H., Mannweiler, K., and Muller, M. (1994) High-pressure freezing of cell suspensions in cellulose capillary tubes, J. Microsc. 175, 34-43.
9. Lassandro, F., Sebastiano, M., Zei, F, and Bazzicalupo, P. (1994) The role of dityrosine formation in the crosslinking of CUT-2, the product of a second cuticlin gene of Caenorhabditis elegans, Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 65, 147-159.
10. Politz, S. M., and Philipp, M. (1992) Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for parasitic nematodes: A focus on the cuticle, Parasitol. Today 8, 6-12.
11. Ristoratore, F., Cermola, M., Nola, M., Bazzicalupo, P., and Favre, R. (1994) Ultrastructural immuno localization of CUT-1 and CUT-2 antigenic sites in the cuticles of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, J. Submicr. Cytol. Pathol. 26, 437-443.
12. Sebastiano, M., Lassandro, F., and Bazzicalupo, P. (1991) cut-1 a Caenorhabditis elegans gene coding for a dauer-specific noncollagenous component of the cuticle, Dev. Biol. 146, 519-530.
13. Sulston, J., and Hodgkin, J. (1988) Methods, in Wood, W. B., and the Community of C. elegans Researchers (Eds.), The Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, pp. 587-606, CSH Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
14. Timinouni, M., and Bazzicalupo, P. (1997) cut-1-like genes of Ascaris lumbricoides, Gene 193, 81-87.