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Vlastnosti exkrečně-sekrečních proteinů motolice Fascioloides magna. / Characterization of excretory-secretory proteins of liver fluke Fascioloides magna.

Fascioloides magna (the giant liver fluke) originated from North America, is known in the Czech Republic since 1930s. This pathogenic fluke invades mostly cervids, but livestock too. Excretory-secretory products (ES products) contain number of esential biomolecules which are produced by excretory and secretory system of the fluke. These molecules play key role in many biological process during the life cycle not only of fascioloid flukes (e.g. migration in the host tissues, immune evasion and digestion). Due to their antigenic properties they could be also used in immunodiagnostics. Excretory-secretory proteins from adult Fascioloides magna and comparative related species Fasciola hepatica were purified and separated by the basic biochemical methods (1D, 2D electrophoresis, ion-exchange chromatography) and their activity was confirmed by specific (fluorogenic peptide) and nonspecific (gelatine) substrates. By using the mass spectrometry methods (MALDI TOF/TOF), the most abundant peptidolytically active proteins from ES products of F. magna were identified as cathepsin L (FmCL). Recombinant analog of FmCL was expressed in Pichia pastoris expression system. The peptidolytic activity was again confirmed using the synthetic fluorogenic substrates; the specifity of recombinant FmCL active site was...

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:312726
Date January 2011
CreatorsBeránková, Kateřina
ContributorsKašný, Martin, Horn, Martin
Source SetsCzech ETDs
LanguageCzech
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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