Fasciola hepatica: characterization and cloning of the major cathepsin B protease secreted by newly excysted juvenile liver fluke

Experimental Parasitology
L WilsonTerry W Spithill

Abstract

Proteolytic activity present in the excreted/secreted (ES) material of newly excysted juvenile (NEJ) Fasciola hepatica was biochemically analyzed. By gelatin substrate SDS-PAGE, only one region of activity was observed in the NEJ ES material at a molecular mass of 29 kDa. Both the secreted cathepsin L from adult fluke and the 29-kDa proteolytic activity of NEJ ES show a common pH optimum of 7.5, a cysteine protease inhibition profile, and preference for the N-benzyloxycarbonyl (Z)-Phe-Arg-NHMec fluorogenic substrate over Z-Arg-Arg-NHMec and Z-Arg-NHMec. In vitro analysis revealed that the NEJ protease activity digested sheep immunoglobulin heavy chain and bovine serum albumin but not bovine hemoglobin. Amino-terminal protein sequence analysis of the 29-kDa NEJ protease band revealed two sequences with homology to the cathepsin B family of proteases. Using degenerate oligonucleotides designed from the N-terminal sequence, reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction with NEJ RNA amplified a cDNA sequence encoding the first 236 amino acids of mature cathepsin B. Using this cDNA fragment an overlapping cDNA was isolated from a LambadaZAP cDNA library constructed with poly(A)+ RNA from immature 5-week-old liver fluke. Together w...Continue Reading

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