A transcriptomic analysis on gene expressions in the infective third and pathogenic fifth larval stages of Angiostrongylus cantonensis

Shih Hsin Chang, Petrus Tang, Chuan Min Yen, Kai Ping N. Chow*, Lian Chen Wang

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Although Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a parasite of rats, it is an important etiologic agent of eosinophilic meningitis and eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans. This study was designed to compare the gene expression in the third- and fifth-stage (L3 and L5) by analysis of expressed sequence tags (ESTs). After removing low quality sequences, vector trimming, clustering and contig assembly, there remained 1437 clusters (285 contigs and 1152 singletons). Among these clusters, 779 (54.2%) showed significant similarity to the known proteins in the non-redundant protein database of GenBank (E-value<1×10-10) and species of the best hit sequences mainly belonged to nematodes. These clusters included 869 (60.5%) that were entirely comprised of ESTs from L3 (L3-biased clusters), 518 (36.0%) entirely from L5 (L5-biased clusters) and 50 (3.5%) from both stages (stage-shared clusters). Functional annotations by the Gene Ontology (GO) comparing with the eukaryotic clusters of orthologous groups of proteins (KOG) indicate that the L3-biased clusters significantly related to metabolism and the L5-biased clusters to growth, development, sexual differentiation and reproduction. Moreover, L3 were found to have expressions of metalloproteases, aspartic proteases, and cysteine proteases whereas expressions of cysteine, aspartic and serine proteases were revealed in L5. The results indicate that earlier developmental stages of nematodes may have a gene expression profile towards metabolism and later stages towards growth and development.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)42-48
頁數7
期刊Parasitology International
63
發行號1
DOIs
出版狀態已出版 - 02 2014

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