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2464763

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-3-17
pubmed:abstractText
An immunodominant species-specific surface glycoprotein antigen was purified from procyclic culture forms of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense using lectin affinity chromatography and a monoclonal antibody immunoadsorbent. The purified molecule appears on a 10% polyacrylamide gel as a wide, dark silver staining band having an apparent molecular mass of between 30 and 40 kDa, identical to that revealed by immunoblotting using anti-procyclic lysates. The molecule, which we have named procyclin, was shown by immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy to be exposed on the surface of procyclic trypanosomes. Gas-phase protein microsequencing and micro-amino acid analysis revealed an unusual acidic polypeptide with an amino-terminal amino acid sequence which matched portions of previously published sequences predicted from two different cDNAs obtained using mRNA from procyclic trypanosomes. The procyclin molecules contained a large glutamic acid-proline repeat and the form we isolated was highly water soluble. Ten different monoclonal antibodies were used in ELISA with synthetic peptides to localize parasite surface epitopes to various portions of procyclin. The results showed that surface epitopes were spread throughout most of the procyclin molecule, including the glutamic acid-proline repeat portion. Procyclin is distributed over the surface of both culture form and tsetse fly midgut form procyclic trypanosomes, is developmentally regulated and is immunologically species-specific.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0166-6851
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
203-16
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Procyclin: an unusual immunodominant glycoprotein surface antigen from the procyclic stage of African trypanosomes.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't