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Published on: January 2, 2013
Purification of a Plasmodium berghei neutral endopeptidase and its localization in merozoite
1Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, UA CNRS no. 290, Université de Poitiers, France.
Abstract:
A Plasmodium berghei neutral endopeptidase specific for the fluorogenic substrates valyl-leucyl-glycyl-arginyl/lysyl-aminoethyl-carbazole was purified by Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography. The enzyme was a Mr 68,000 polypeptide. Immunization of mice with the purified enzyme gave a specific antiserum, as demonstrated by immunoblotting. Immunofluorescence with this antiserum showed a strong labelling of P. berghei merozoites in mature segmented schizonts and of merozoites released from schizont-infected red blood cell. This labelling was mainly associated with the merozoite apex. It is possible that this endopeptidase is involved in the reinvasion.
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