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JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY
卷 65, 期 5, 页码 709-721出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12626
关键词
Calcineurin; C-terminus tagging; hedgehog; phospholipase C; spaghetti monster
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资金
- U.S. National Institutes of Health [AI1096836, AI128356]
- T32 training grant [AI060546]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- NIH National Center for Research Resource Grant [05T35OD010433]
Calcium ions regulate a diversity of cellular functions in all eukaryotes. The cytosolic Ca2+ concentration is tightly regulated at the physiological cytosolic concentration of 50-100nm. The Toxoplasma gondii genome predicts the presence of several genes encoding potential Ca2+ channels, pumps, and transporters. Many of these genes are weakly expressed and likely tightly regulated due to their potential impact to the physiology of the cell. Endogenous tagging has been widely used to localize proteins in T.gondii but low level of expression of many of them makes visualization of tags difficult and sometimes impossible. The use of high-performance tags for labeling proteins expressed at low level is ideal for investigating the localization of these gene products. We designed a Carboxy-terminus tagging plasmid containing the previously characterized spaghetti monster-HA (smHA) or spaghetti monster-MYC (smMYC) tags. These tags consist of 10 copies of a single epitope (HA or MYC) inserted into a darkened green fluorescence protein scaffold. We localized six proteins of various levels of expression. Clonal lines were isolated and validated by PCR, western blot, and immunofluorescence analyses. Some gene products were only visible when tagged with smHA and in one case the smHA revealed a novel localization previously undetected.
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