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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 46, 期 12, 页码 6057-6068出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky373
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-13-JSV3-0006-01]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-13-JSV3-0006-01]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-13-JSV3-0006] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Toxoplasma gondii virulence depends on the expression of factors packed into specific organelles such as rhoptry and microneme. Although virulence factor expression is tightly regulated, the molecular mechanisms controlling their regulation remain poorly understood. ApiAP2 are a family of conserved transcription factors (TFs) that play an important role in regulating gene expression in apicomplexan parasites. TgAP2XI-5 is able to bind to transcriptionally active promoters of genes expressed during the S/M phase of the cell cycle, such as virulence genes (rhoptries and micronemes genes). We identified proteins interacting with TgAP2XI-5 including a cell cycle-regulated ApiAP2 TF, TgAP2X-5. Using an inducible knock-down strategy and RNA-seq, we demonstrated that the level of expression of number of virulence factors transcripts is affected by the disruption of TgAP2X-5 expression. While TgAP2X-5 disruption has mild effect on parasite invasion, it leads to the strain avirulence in mice. To better understand the molecular mechanisms at stake, we investigated the binding of TgAP2XI-5 at promoters in the TgAP2X-5 mutant strain in a genome-wide assay. We show that disruption of TgAP2X-5 expression leads to defects in TgAP2XI-5 binding to multiple rhoptry gene promoters. Taken together, these data suggest a cooperative contribution of two ApiAP2 TF in the regulation of virulence genes in T. gondii.
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