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Studying Cryptosporidium Infection in 3D Tissue-derived Human Organoid Culture Systems by Microinjection
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Cryptosporidium parvum: radiation-induced alteration of the oocyst proteome
Soo-Ung Lee1, Migyo Joung, Taekyoung Nam
1Department of Environmental and Tropical Medicine, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul 143-701, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Cryptosporidium parvum is a waterborne protozoan parasite that is found intracellularly in host animals, including humans, and causes severe diarrhea, which can lead to the death of an immunocompromised individual. Previously, we found that this organism is highly radioresistant as it can productively infect mice after exposure to a 10-kGy dose of γ-radiation. To understand how C. parvum avoids radiation damage, we characterized its protein expression patterns 6, 24, and 48 h after a 10-kGy dose of γ-radiation using two-dimensional PAGE. The gels showed 10 silver-stained spots that increased or decreased in size following γ-irradiation. Five proteins contained in these spots were identified using MALDI-TOF MS peptide fingerprinting, and two of these showed an increase in expression after γ-irradiation. These proteins were identified by LC-MS/MS as proteasome subunit alpha type 4 (NTN hydrolase fold) and thioredoxin peroxidase-like protein. The roles of these two upregulated proteins as related to the radioresistance of C. parvum remain to be evaluated.
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