LEONTOVYČ, Roman, D Neil YOUNG, Pasi KORHONEN, S Hall HALL, Patrick TAN, Libor MIKEŠ, Martin KAŠNÝ, Petr HORÁK and B Robin GASSER. Comparative Transcriptomic Exploration Reveals Unique Molecular Adaptations of Neuropathogenic Trichobilharzia to Invade and Parasitize Its Avian Definitive Host. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. San Francisco: Public Library of Science, vol. 10, No 2, p. "nestrankovano", 24 pp. ISSN 1935-2735. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004406. 2016.
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Original name Comparative Transcriptomic Exploration Reveals Unique Molecular Adaptations of Neuropathogenic Trichobilharzia to Invade and Parasitize Its Avian Definitive Host
Authors LEONTOVYČ, Roman (203 Czech Republic), D Neil YOUNG (36 Australia), Pasi KORHONEN (36 Australia), S Hall HALL (36 Australia), Patrick TAN (702 Singapore), Libor MIKEŠ (203 Czech Republic), Martin KAŠNÝ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Petr HORÁK (203 Czech Republic) and B Robin GASSER (36 Australia).
Edition PLoS neglected tropical diseases, San Francisco, Public Library of Science, 2016, 1935-2735.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 3.834
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/16:00093535
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004406
UT WoS 000372567300026
Keywords in English Trichobilharzia regenti; neuropathogen; transcriptome
Tags AKR, rivok
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Abstract
To date, most molecular investigations of schistosomatids have focused principally on blood flukes (schistosomes) of humans. Despite the clinical importance of cercarial dermatitis in humans caused by Trichobilharzia regenti and the serious neuropathologic disease that this parasite causes in its permissive avian hosts and accidental mammalian hosts, almost nothing is known about the molecular aspects of how this fluke invades its hosts, migrates in host tissues and how it interacts with its hosts' immune system. Here, we explored selected aspects using a transcriptomic-bioinformatic approach. To do this, we sequenced, assembled and annotated the transcriptome representing two consecutive life stages (cercariae and schistosomula) of T. regenti involved in the first phases of infection of the avian host. We identified key biological and metabolic pathways specific to each of these two developmental stages and also undertook comparative analyses using data available for taxonomically related blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma. Detailed comparative analyses revealed the unique involvement of carbohydrate metabolism, translation and amino acid metabolism, and calcium in T. regenti cercariae during their invasion and in growth and development, as well as the roles of cell adhesion molecules, microaerobic metabolism (citrate cycle and oxidative phosphorylation), peptidases (cathepsins) and other histolytic and lysozomal proteins in schistosomula during their particular migration in neural tissues of the avian host. In conclusion, the present transcriptomic exploration provides new and significant insights into the molecular biology of T. regenti, which should underpin future genomic and proteomic investigations of T. regenti and, importantly, provides a useful starting point for a range of comparative studies of schistosomatids and other trematodes.
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