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JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE
Volume 72, Issue 5, Pages 599-604Publisher
JAPAN SOC VET SCI
DOI: 10.1292/jvms.09-0561
Keywords
arthropods; enzymes; tick; vector biology
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
- Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22658097] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Although the actions of cysteine proteases are controlled in part by endogenous tight-binding cysteine protease inhibitors from the cystatin superfamily, regulatory mechanisms used by ticks to control protease activities are unknown. We report here the interaction of 2 endogenous midgut cysteine protease inhibitors, Hlcyst-1 and Hlcyst-2, with an endogenous midgut cysteine protease, HlCPL-A in Haemaphysalis longicornis. In vitro inhibition assays demonstrated that the hydrolytic activity of HlCPL-A was inhibited by Hlcyst-1 and Hlcyst-2 in dose dependent manner. Immunofluorescent studies revealed that Hlcyst-1 and Hlcyst-2 are co-localized with HlCPL-A in the epithelial cells of the midgut. The hemoglobin degradation activity of HlCPL-A was dose-dependently inhibited by Hlcyst-1 and Hlcyst-2. These results strongly indicate that, Hlcyst-1 and Hlcyst-2 are possible inhibitor of HlCPL-A and play a key role in regulatory mechanisms of hemoglobin degradation process in ticks.
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