The promastigote surface antigen gene family of the Leishmania parasite: Differential evolution by positive selection and recombination

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Devault, Alain ^a,b   Bãuls, Anne Laure ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; LEUCINE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROMASTIGOTE SURFACE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PARASITE ANTIGEN; SPACER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 9; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PSA GENE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; LEISHMANIA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 56349140635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-292     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Leishmania and the leishmaniases: a parasite genetic update and advances in taxonomy, epidemiology and pathogenicity in humans. AL Banuls M Hide F Prugnolle, Adv Parasitol 2007 64 1 109 17499100
2. The major surface glycoprotein (GP63) is present in both life stages of Leishmania. TO Frommel LL Button Y Fujikura WR McMaster, Mol Biochem Parasitol 1990 38 1 25 32 2181303
3. Cloning, sequencing, and expression of the PSA genes from Leishmania infantum. A Jimenez-Ruiz C Boceta P Bonay JM Requena C Alonso, Eur J Biochem 1998 251 1-2 389 397 9492309
4. Proteophosphoglycans of Leishmania. T Ilg, Parasitol Today 2000 16 11 489 497 11063860
5. Leishmania-host-cell interaction: complexities and alternative views. MG Rittig C Bogdan, Parasitol Today 2000 16 7 292 297 10858648
6. Immune response regulation by leishmania secreted and nonsecreted antigens. N Santarem R Silvestre J Tavares M Silva S Cabral J Maciel A Cordeiro-da-Silva, J Biomed Biotechnol 2007 2007 6 85154 17710243
7. Subversion mechanisms by which Leishmania parasites can escape the host immune response: a signaling point of view. M Olivier DJ Gregory G Forget, Clin Microbiol Rev 2005 18 2 293 305 15831826
8. The Leishmania promastigote surface antigen 2 complex is differentially expressed during the parasite life cycle. E Handman AH Osborn F Symons R van Driel R Cappai, Mol Biochem Parasitol 1995 74 2 189 200 8719160
9. Surface glycoprotein PSA (GP46) expression during short- and long-term culture of Leishmania chagasi. JK Beetham JE Donelson RR Dahlin, Mol Biochem Parasitol 2003 131 2 109 117 14511809
10. Genetic complementation of Leishmania deficient in PSA (GP46) restores their resistance to lysis by complement. LM Lincoln M Ozaki JE Donelson JK Beetham, Mol Biochem Parasitol 2004 137 1 185 189 15279966
11. Bacterial adhesion and entry into host cells. J Pizarro-Cerda P Cossart, Cell 2006 124 4 715 727 16497583
12. Characterization of a novel leucine-rich repeat protein antigen from group B streptococci that elicits protective immunity. R Seepersaud SB Hanniffy P Mayne P Sizer R Le Page JM Wells, Infect Immun 2005 73 3 1671 1683 15731068
13. Innate immunity via Toll-like receptors and Nod proteins. R Athman D Philpott, Curr Opin Microbiol 2004 7 1 25 32 15036136
14. Plant NBS-LRR proteins: adaptable guards. L McHale X Tan P Koehl RW Michelmore, Genome Biol 2006 7 4 212 16677430
15. Molecular cloning and characterization of the immunologically protective surface glycoprotein GP46/M-2 of Leishmania amazonensis. KL Lohman PJ Langer D McMahon-Pratt, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1990 87 21 8393 8397 2236047
16. Comparison of the post-transcriptional regulation of the mRNAs for the surface proteins PSA (GP46) and MSP (GP63) of Leishmania chagasi. KS Myung JK Beetham ME Wilson JE Donelson, J Biol Chem 2002 277 19 16489 16497 11856749
17. Comparative genomic analysis of three Leishmania species that cause diverse human disease. CS Peacock K Seeger D Harris L Murphy JC Ruiz MA Quail N Peters E Adlem A Tivey M Aslett, Nat Genet 2007 39 7 839 847 17572675
18. The genome of the kinetoplastid parasite, Leishmania major. AC Ivens CS Peacock EA Worthey L Murphy G Aggarwal M Berriman E Sisk MA Rajandream E Adlem R Aert, Science 2005 309 5733 436 442 16020728
19. Structural diversity of leucine-rich repeat proteins. AV Kajava, J Mol Biol 1998 277 3 519 527 9533877
20. Full-length human immunodeficiency virus type 1 genomes from subtype C-infected seroconverters in India, with evidence of intersubtype recombination. KS Lole RC Bollinger RS Paranjape D Gadkari SS Kulkarni NG Novak R Ingersoll HW Sheppard SC Ray, J Virol 1999 73 1 152 160 9847317
21. Effect of recombination on the accuracy of the likelihood method for detecting positive selection at amino acid sites. M Anisimova R Nielsen Z Yang, Genetics 2003 164 3 1229 1236 12871927
22. Assessment of the ability to model proteins with leucine-rich repeats in light of the latest structural information. AV Kajava B Kobe, Protein Sci 2002 11 5 1082 1090 11967365
23. Structural and antigenic characterization of a species- and promastigote-specific Leishmania mexicana amazonensis membrane protein. LP Kahl D McMahon-Pratt, J Immunol 1987 138 5 1587 1595 3543130
24. The PSA-2 glycoprotein complex of Leishmania major is a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked promastigote surface antigen. PJ Murray TW Spithill E Handman, J Immunol 1989 143 12 4221 4226 2592773
25. Phylogenomic analysis of natural selection pressure in Streptococcus genomes. M Anisimova J Bielawski K Dunn Z Yang, BMC Evol Biol 2007 7 154 17760998
26. Recombination and positive selection contribute to evolution of Listeria monocytogenes inlA. RH Orsi DR Ripoll M Yeung KK Nightingale M Wiedmann, Microbiology 2007 153 Pt 8 2666 2678 17660431
27. Structure and evolution of plant disease resistance genes. P Lehmann, J Appl Genet 2002 43 4 403 414 12441626
28. Positive selection of primate TRIM5alpha identifies a critical species-specific retroviral restriction domain. SL Sawyer LI Wu M Emerman HS Malik, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2005 102 8 2832 2837 15689398
29. Dynamic evolution of the innate immune system in Drosophila. TB Sackton BP Lazzaro TA Schlenke JD Evans D Hultmark AG Clark, Nat Genet 2007 39 12 1461 1468 17987029
30. The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools. JD Thompson TJ Gibson F Plewniak F Jeanmougin DG Higgins, Nucleic Acids Res 1997 25 24 4876 4882 9396791
31. Identification of GPI anchor attachment signals by a Kohonen self-organizing map. N Fankhauser P Maser, Bioinformatics 2005 21 9 1846 1852 15691858
32. DIALIGN 2: improvement of the segment-to-segment approach to multiple sequence alignment. B Morgenstern, Bioinformatics 1999 15 3 211 218 10222408
33. A simple, fast, and accurate algorithm to estimate large phylogenies by maximum likelihood. S Guindon O Gascuel, Syst Biol 2003 52 5 696 704 14530136
34. Assessment of methods for amino acid matrix selection and their use on empirical data shows that ad hoc assumptions for choice of matrix are not justified. TM Keane CJ Creevey MM Pentony TJ Naughton JO McLnerney, BMC Evol Biol 2006 6 29 16563161
35. MEGA3: Integrated software for Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis and sequence alignment. S Kumar K Tamura M Nei, Brief Bioinform 2004 5 2 150 163 15260895
36. TreeDyn: towards dynamic graphics and annotations for analyses of trees. F Chevenet C Brun AL Banuls B Jacq R Christen, BMC Bioinformatics 2006 7 439 17032440
37. PAML: a program package for phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood. Z Yang, Comput Appl Biosci 1997 13 5 555 556 9367129
38. Bayes empirical bayes inference of amino acid sites under positive selection. Z Yang WS Wong R Nielsen, Mol Biol Evol 2005 22 4 1107 1118 15689528