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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY
卷 40, 期 13, 页码 1497-1516出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2010.05.013
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Leishmania infantum; Life cycle; Genomic DNA microarrays; Amastigote; Down-regulation
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- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (MEC), Spain [AGL2003-06152-C02-01]
- Centro de Astrobiologia, INTA-CSIC, Spain
- CSIC [I3P-BPD2003-1, JAE-Doc027]
Leishmania infantum is the causative agent of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean Basin. The promastigote and amastigote stages alternate in the life cycle of the parasite, developing inside the sand-fly gut and inside mammalian phagocytic cells, respectively. High-throughput genomic and proteomic analyses have not focused their attention on promastigote development, although partial approaches have been made in Leishmania major and Leishmania braziliensis. For this reason we have studied the expression modulation of an etiological agent of visceral leishmaniasis throughout the life cycle, which has been performed by means of complete genomic microarrays. In the context of constitutive genome expression in Leishmania spp. described elsewhere and confirmed here (5.7%), we found a down-regulation rate of 68% in the amastigote stage, which has been contrasted by binomial tests and includes the down-regulation of genes involved in translation and ribosome biogenesis. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis of pre-adaptation of the parasite to intracellular survival at this stage. (c) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of Australian Society for Parasitology Inc.
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