Giardia intestinalis is an anaerobic protozoan pathogen, agent of the disease known as giardiasis. The regulation of gene expression during giardia cell- and life-cycle has been poorly studied so far, with the exception of variable surface proteins, which constitute the immunoprotective coat of the cell. In this diploma thesis, we focus on the possible role of the 3' untranslated region (3'UTR) of mRNA that mediate stability and localization of mRNA transcripts. We use RNA binding proteins of PUF family, which control the function of the target transcripts by their repression, activation or sequestration, to monitor and verify the role of 3'UTRs. These only eukaryotic proteins are highly evolutionarily conserved. Each of them contain highly conserved C-terminal domain, which specificly binds to 3'UTR of mRNAs. We have identified five different PUF proteins in the genome of G. intestinalis (GiPUF), cinfirmed their expression in G. intestinalis trophozoites and located all five proteins in the cytoplasm. GiPUF2, GiPUF3 and GiPUF5 show an additional affinity to the surface of the endoplasmic reticulum. We have identified the C-terminal binding domain in protein sequences of all GiPUF. The most conserved GiPUF4 contain eight binding sites, nearly identical to the binding site of human Pum1 protein,...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:323654 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Najdrová, Vladimíra |
| Contributors | Doležal, Pavel, Zubáčová, Zuzana |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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