Purification of Trypanosoma cruzi surface proteins involved in adhesion to host cells

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1990 Oct 30;172(2):925-31. doi: 10.1016/0006-291x(90)90764-e.

Abstract

We have identified four surface 83 kDa proteins of pI values 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 and 6.6 in T. cruzi trypomastigotes which specifically bind to rat heart myoblasts. These proteins were purified by isoelectric focusing and anion-exchange chromatography in an FPLC system. These 83 kDa proteins inhibit the attachment of trypomastigotes to myoblasts in a concentration-dependent manner, indicating that these trypomastigote proteins mediate the attachment of trypomastigotes to heart myoblasts.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Adhesion
  • Cell Membrane / physiology
  • Chromatography, Ion Exchange
  • Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
  • Heart / parasitology*
  • Isoelectric Focusing
  • Membrane Proteins / isolation & purification*
  • Membrane Proteins / physiology
  • Molecular Weight
  • Rats
  • Trypanosoma cruzi / physiology*

Substances

  • Membrane Proteins