Molecular cloning, expression and isolation of ferritins from two tick species - Ornithodoros moubata and Ixodes ricinus

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 103-113

  Kopáček, Petr ^a   Ždychová, Jana ^a   Yoshiga, Toyoshi ^b,d   Weise, Christoph ^c   Rudenko, Natasha ^a   Law, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ferritin; Iron metabolism; Ixodes ricinus; Ornithodoros moubata; Tick

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FERRITIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FERRITINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS;

ACARI; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; EQUUS CABALLUS; HOMO; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDAE; ORNITHODOROS; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037211912     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(02)00181-9     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Adams, M.D., Celniker, S.E., Holt, R.A., Evans, C.A., Gocayne, J.D., et al. 2000. The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster. Science 287, 2185-2195.
2. Boyd, D., Vecoli, C., Belcher, D.M., Jain, S.K., Drysdale, J.W., 1985. Structural and functional relationships of human ferritin H and L chains deduced from cDNA clones. J. Biol. Chem. 260, 11755-11761.
3. Bradford, M.M., 1976. A rapid and sensitive method for quantification of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal. Biochem. 72, 248-254.
4. Braz, G.R., Coelho, H.S., Masuda, H., Oliveira, P.L., 1999. A missing metabolic pathway in the cattle tick. Boophilus microplus. Curr. Biol. 9, 703-706.
5. Briegel, H., 1986. Protein catabolism and nitrogen partitioning during oogenesis in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. J. Insect. Physiol. 32, 455-462.
6. Charlesworth, A., Georgieva, T., Gospodov, I., Law, J.H., Dunkov, B.C., Ralcheva, N., Barillas-Mury, C., Ralchev, K., Kafatos, F.C., 1997. Isolation and properties of Drosophila melanogaster ferritin - Molecular cloning of a cDNA that encodes one subunit, and localization of the gene on the third chromosome. Eur. J. Biochem. 247, 470-475.
7. Chinzei, Y., Chino, H., Takahashi, K., 1983. Purification and properties of vitellogenin and vitellin from a tick, Ornithodoros moubata. J. Comp. Physiol. 152, 13-21.
8. Dickey, L.F., Sreedharan, S., Theil, E.C., Didsbury, J.R., Wang, Y.H., Kaufman, R.E., 1987. Differences in the regulation of messenger RNA for housekeeping and specialized-cell ferritin. A comparison of three distinct ferritin complementary DNAs, the corresponding subunits, and identification of the first processed in amphibia. J. Biol. Chem. 262, 7901-7907.
9. Dunkov, B.C., Georgieva, T., 1999. Organization of the ferritin genes in Drosophila melanogaster. DNA Cell Biol. 18, 937-944.
10. Dunkov, B.C., Zhang, D., Choumarov, K., Winzerling, J.J., Law, J.H., 1995. Isolation and characterization of mosquito ferritin and cloning of a cDNA that encodes one subunit. Arch. Insect. Biochem. Physiol. 29, 293-307.
11. Gudderra, N.P., Neese, P.A., Sonenshine, D.E., Apperson, C.S., Roe, R.M., 2001. Developmental profile, isolation, and biochemical characterization of a novel lipoglycoheme-carrier protein from the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Acari:Ixodidae) and observations on a similar protein in the soft tick, Ornithodoros parkeri (Acari:Argasidae). Insect. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 31, 299-311.
12. Huang, T.S., Law, J.H., Söderhäll, K., 1996. Purification and cDNA cloning of ferritin from the hepatopancreas of the freshwater cray-fish Pacifastacus leniusculus. Eur. J. Biochem. 236, 450-456.
13. Kopácek, P., Weise, C., Götz, P., 1995. The prophenoloxidase from the wax moth Galleria mellonella: Purification and characterization of the proenzyme. Insect. Biochem. Molec. Biol. 25, 1081-1091.
14. Kopácek, P., Weise, C., Saravanan, T., Vítová, K., Grubhoffer, L., 2000. Characterization of an α-macroglobulin from the plasma of the soft tick Ornithodoros moubata. Eur. J. Biochem. 267, 465-475.
15. Kevil, G.C., Walsh, L., Laroux, F.S., Kalogeris, T., Grisham, M.B., Alexander, J.S., 1997. An improved rapid northern protocol. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 238, 277-279.
16. Locke, M., Leung, H., 1984. The induction and distribution of an insect ferritin - A new function for the endoplasmic reticulum. Tissue Cell 16, 739-766.
17. Maya-Monteiro, C.M., Daffre, S., Logullo, C., Lara, F.A., Alves, E.W., Capurro, M.L., Zingali, R., Almeida, I.C., Oliveira, P.L., 2000. HeLp, a heme lipoprotein from the hemolymph of the cattle tick, Boophilus microplus. J. Biol. Chem. 275, 36584-36589.
18. Nichol, H., Locke, M., 1999. Secreted ferritin subunits are two kinds in insects. Molecular cloning of cDNAs encoding two major subunits of secreted ferritin from Calpodes ethlius. Insect Bioch. Molec. Biol. 29, 999-1013.
19. Nichol, H., Law, J.H., Winzerling, J.J., 2002. Iron metabolism in insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 47, 535-559.
20. Oliveira, M.F., Silva, J.R., Dansa-Petretski, M., de Souza, W., Braga, C.M., Masuda, H., Oliveira, P.L., 2000. Haemozoin formation in the midgut of the blood-sucking insect Rhodnius prolixus. FEBS Lett. 477, 95-98.
21. Pham, D.Q., Winzerling, J.J., Dodson, M.S., Law, J.H., 1999. Transcriptional control is relevant in the modulation of mosquito ferritin synthesis by iron. Eur. J. Biochem. 266, 236-240.
22. Rosell, R., Coons, L.B., 1991. Hemolymph and egg yolk proteins in Dermacentor variabilis: Preliminary results. In: Dusbábek, F., Bukva, V. (Eds.), Modern Acarology, Vol.1. Academia, Prague, pp. 319-324.
23. Russo, C., Callegaro, L., Lanza, E., Ferrone, S., 1983. Purification of IgG monoclonal antibody by caprylic acid precipitation. J. Immunol. Methods 65, 269-271.
24. Shevchenko, A., Wilm, M., Vorm, O., Mann, M., 1996. Mass spectrometric sequencing of proteins silver-stained polyacrylamide gels. Anal. Chem. 68, 850-858.
25. Sonenshine, D.E., 1991. Biology of Ticks, vol. 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
26. Von Darl, M., Harrison, P.M., Bottke, W., 1994. cDNA cloning and deduced amino acid sequence of two ferritins: Soma ferritin and yolk ferritin from the snail Lymnaea stagnalis L. Eur. J. Biochem. 222, 353-366.
27. Vorm, O., Roepstorff, P., Mann, M., 1994. Matrix surfaces made by fast evaporation yield improved resolution and very high sensitivity in MALDI TOF. Anal. Chem. 66, 3281-3287.
28. Xu, S.Y., 1986. A rapid method for preparing phage lambda DNA from agar plate lysates. Gene Anal. Tech. 3, 90-99.
29. Zhang, D., Albert, D.W., Kohlhepp, P., Pham, D.Q., Winzerling, J.J., 2001. Repression of Manduca sexta ferritin synthesis by IRPI/IRE interaction. Insect Mol. Biol. 10, 531-539.