Epinastigotes of different stocks of Trypanosoma cruzi contain levels of proteinase activity on azocasein; amastigotes and trypmastigotes contain 10-fold lower levels of this proteolytic activity, which seems, therefore, to be developmentally regulated. The proteinase could be detected as a broad band, centered at about 60 kDa, which in some resolved into two close bands, in (a) SDS-polyacrylamide gels containing fibrinogen, and (b) Western blots probed with polyclonal rabbit antiserum prepared against purified cystein proteinase. No proteinase activity was observed at molecular weights lower than 55 kDa. The results show that the enzyme preciously purified is teh major cysteine proteinase present in epimastigotes of all stocks of T. cruzi tested. © 1990.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | A major cysteine proteinase is developmentally regulated in Trypanosoma cruzi |
Autor: | Campetella, O.; Martínez, J.; Cazzulo, J.J. |
Filiación: | Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas Fundaciòn Campomar, Facultad de Ciencia Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Airesd-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Palabras clave: | Cysteine proteinases; Polyacrylamide gels; Trypanosoma cruzi; Western blots; cysteine proteinase; cysteine proteinase; article; filaria; nonhuman; priority journal; protozoon; trypanosoma; animal; enzymology; growth, development and aging; isolation and purification; metabolism; molecular weight; polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; Trypanosoma cruzi; Western blotting; Filaria; Oryctolagus cuniculus; Protozoa; Trypanosoma; Trypanosoma cruzi; Animal; Blotting, Western; Cysteine Endopeptidases; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; Molecular Weight; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Trypanosoma cruzi |
Año: | 1990 |
Volumen: | 67 |
Número: | 1-2 |
Página de inicio: | 145 |
Página de fin: | 149 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-1097(90)90184-R |
Título revista: | FEMS Microbiology Letters |
Título revista abreviado: | FEMS Microbiol. Lett. |
ISSN: | 03781097 |
CODEN: | FMLED |
CAS: | cysteine proteinase, 37353-41-6; Cysteine Endopeptidases, EC 3.4.22 |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_03781097_v67_n1-2_p145_Campetella |