Brugia malayi: Effects of radiation and culture on gene expression in infective larvae

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-207

  Li, Ben Wen ^a   Rush, Amy C ^a   Weil, Gary J ^a   McCarter, James P ^a,b   Mitreva, Makedonka ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Divergence Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Brugia; Filarial infective larvae; Gene expression; Irradiated and cultured L3; Nematode

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DOWN REGULATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; IRRADIATION; LARVA; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, HELMINTH; LARVA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 33747787719     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2006.05.013     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Ottesen E., Duke B., Karam M., and Behhbehan K. Strategies and tools for the control/elimination of lymphatic filariasis. Bull World Health Organ 75 (1997) 491-503
2. Devaney E., and Osborne J. The third-stage larva (L3) of Brugia: its role in immune modulation and protective immunity. Microbes Infect 2 (2000) 1363-1371
3. Eisenbeiss W.F., Apfel H., and Meyer T.F. Protective immunity linked with a distinct developmental stage of a filarial parasite. J Immunol 152 (1994) 735-742
4. Gnanasekar M., Rao K.V., He Y.X., et al. Novel phage display-based subtractive screening to identify vaccine candidates of Brugia malayi. Infect Immun 72 (2004) 4707-4715
5. Oothuman P., Denham D., and McGreevy P. Successful vaccination of cats against Brugia pahangi with larvae attenuated by irradiation with 10 kRad Cobalt 60. Parasite Immunol 1 (1979) 209-216
6. Weil G.J., Li B.W., Liftis F., and Chandrashekar R. Brugia malayi: antibody responses to larval antigens in infected and immunized jirds. Exp Parasitol 74 (1992) 315-323
7. Yates J., and Hagashi G. Brugia malayi: vaccination of jirds with 60 Cobalt-attenuated infective stage larvae protects against homologous challenge. Am J Trop Med Hyg 34 (1985) 1132-1137
8. Li B.W., Chandrashekar R., Alvarez R.M., Liftis F., and Weil G.J. Identification of paramyosin as a potential protective antigen against Brugia malayi infection in jirds. Mol Biochem Parasitol 49 (1991) 315-323
9. Allen J.E., Daub J., Guiliano D., et al. Analysis of genes expressed at the infective larval stage validates utility of Litomosoides sigmodontis as a murine model for filarial vaccine development. Infect Immun 68 (2000) 5454-5458
10. Bianco A.E., Robertson B.D., Kuo Y.M., Townson S., and Ham P.J. Developmentally regulated expression and secretion of a polymorphic antigen by Onchocerca infective-stage larvae. Mol Biochem Parasitol 39 (1990) 203-211
11. Blaxter M.L., Raghavan N., Ghosh I., et al. Genes expressed in Brugia malayi infective third stage larvae. Mol Biochem Parasitol 77 (1996) 77-93
12. Gregory W.F., Blaxter M.L., and Maizels R.M. Differentially expressed, abundant trans-spliced cDNAs from larval Brugia malayi. Mol Biochem Parasitol 87 (1997) 85-95
13. Lizotte-Waniewski M., Tawe W., Guiliano D.B., et al. Identification of potential vaccine and drug target candidates by expressed sequence tag analysis and immunoscreening of Onchocerca volvulus larval cDNA libraries. Infect Immun 68 (2000) 3491-3501
14. Martin S.A., Hunter S.J., Thompson F.J., and Devaney E. Stage specific gene expression in the post-infective L3 of the filarial nematode, Brugia pahangi. Mol Biochem Parasitol 79 (1996) 109-112
15. Devaney E., and Jecock R.M. The expression of the Mr 30,000 antigen in the third stage larvae of Brugia pahangi. Parasite Immunol 13 (1991) 75-87
16. Proudfoot L., Kusel J.R., Smith H.V., Harnett W., Worms M.J., and Kennedy M.W. Rapid changes in the surface of parasitic nematodes during transition from pre- to post-parasitic forms. Parasitology 107 Pt. 1 (1993) 107-117
17. Devaney E., Martin S.A., and Thompson F.J. Stage-specific gene expression in lymphatic filarial nematodes. Parasitol Today 12 (1996) 418-424
18. Blaxter M., Daub J., Guiliano D., Parkinson J., and Whitton C. The Brugia malayi genome project: expressed sequence tags and gene discovery. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 96 (2002) 7-17
19. MaCall J. The role of arthropods in the development of animal models for filaria research. J Georgia Entomol Soc 16 (1981) 283-293
20. Rao R.U., Moussa H., and Weil G.J. Brugia malayi: effects of antibacterial agents on larval viability and development in vitro. Exp Parasitol 101 (2002) 77-81
21. Franke E.D., and Weinstein P.P. In vitro cultivation of Dipetalonema viteae third-stage larvae: evaluation of culture media, serum, and other supplements. J Parasitol 70 (1984) 618-628
22. Li B.W., Rush A.C., Tan J., and Weil G.J. Quantitative analysis of gender-regulated transcripts in the filarial nematode Brugia malayi by real-time RT-PCR. Mol Biochem Parasitol 137 (2004) 329-337
23. Ciavatta V., and Cairney J. Isolation of full-length cDNA clones using SMART cDNA and a biotin-streptavidin bead system. Biotechniques 29 (2000) 444-6, 8, 50
24. Mitreva M., Jasmer D.P., Appleton J., et al. Gene discovery in the adenophorean nematode Trichinella spiralis: an analysis of transcription from three life cycle stages. Mol Biochem Parasitol 137 (2004) 277-291
25. McCarter J.P., Mitreva M.D., Martin J., et al. Analysis and functional classification of transcripts from the nematode Meloidogyne incognita. Genome Biol 4 (2003) R26
26. Wylie T., Martin J.C., Dante M., et al. Nematode.net: a tool for navigating sequences from parasitic and free-living nematodes. Nucl Acids Res 32 (2004) D423-D426
27. Altschul S.F., Gish W., Miller W., Myers E.W., and Lipman D.J. Basic local alignment search tool. J Mol Biol 215 (1990) 403-410
28. Mitreva M., McCarter J.P., Martin J., et al. Comparative genomics of gene expression in the parasitic and free-living nematodes Strongyloides stercoralis and Caenorhabditis elegans. Genome Res 14 (2004) 209-220
29. Parkinson J., Mitreva M., Hall N., Blaxter M., and McCarter J.P. 400,000 nematode ESTs on the Net. Trends Parasitol 19 (2003) 283-286
30. Ghedin E., Wang S., Foster J.M., and Slatko B.E. First sequenced genome of a parasitic nematode. Trends Parasitol 20 (2004) 151-153
31. Audic S., and Claverie J.M. The significance of digital gene expression profiles. Genome Res 7 (1997) 986-995
32. Maizels R.M., Blaxter M.L., and Scott A.L. Immunological genomics of Brugia malayi: filarial genes implicated in immune evasion and protective immunity. Parasite Immunol 23 (2001) 327-344
33. Williams S.A., Lizotte-Waniewski M.R., Foster J., et al. The filarial genome project: analysis of the nuclear, mitochondrial and endosymbiont genomes of Brugia malayi. Int J Parasitol 30 (2000) 411-419
34. Gregory W.F., Atmadja A.K., Allen J.E., and Maizels R.M. The abundant larval transcript-1 and -2 genes of Brugia malayi encode stage-specific candidate vaccine antigens for filariasis. Infect Immun 68 (2000) 4174-4179
35. Ramachandran S., Kumar M.P., Rami R.M., et al. The larval specific lymphatic filarial ALT-2: induction of protection using protein or DNA vaccination. Microbiol Immunol 48 (2004) 945-955
36. Hawdon J.M., Jones B.F., Hoffman D.R., and Hotez P.J. Cloning and characterization of Ancylostoma-secreted protein. A novel protein associated with the transition to parasitism by infective hookworm larvae. J Biol Chem 271 (1996) 6672-6678
37. Moyle M., Foster D.L., McGrath D.E., et al. A hookworm glycoprotein that inhibits neutrophil function is a ligand of the integrin CD11b/CD18. J Biol Chem 269 (1994) 10008-10015
38. Tawe W., Pearlman E., Unnasch T.R., and Lustigman S. Angiogenic activity of Onchocerca volvulus recombinant proteins similar to vespid venom antigen 5. Mol Biochem Parasitol 109 (2000) 91-99
39. Murray J., Gregory W.F., Gomez-Escobar N., Atmadja A.K., and Maizels R.M. Expression and immune recognition of Brugia malayi VAL-1, a homologue of vespid venom allergens and Ancylostoma secreted proteins. Mol Biochem Parasitol 118 (2001) 89-96
40. Guiliano D.B., Hong X., McKerrow J.H., et al. A gene family of cathepsin L-like proteases of filarial nematodes are associated with larval molting and cuticle and eggshell remodeling. Mol Biochem Parasitol 136 (2004) 227-242
41. Lustigman S., Zhang J., Liu J., Oksov Y., and Hashmi S. RNA interference targeting cathepsin L and Z-like cysteine proteases of Onchocerca volvulus confirmed their essential function during L3 molting. Mol Biochem Parasitol 138 (2004) 165-170
42. Kim S.K., Lund J., Kiraly M., et al. A gene expression map for Caenorhabditis elegans. Science 293 (2001) 2087-2092
43. Nelson G.A., Jones T.A., Chesnut A., and Smith A.L. Radiation-induced gene expression in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. J Radiat Res (Tokyo) 43 Suppl. (2002) S199-S203