The multiple cpb cysteine proteinase genes of Leishmania mexicana encode isoenzymes that differ in their stage regulation and substrate preferences.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
J C MottramG H Coombs

Abstract

The cpb genes of Leishmania mexicana encode stage-regulated, cathepsin L-like cysteine proteinases that are leishmanial virulence factors. Field inversion gel electrophoresis and genomic mapping indicate that there are 19 cpb genes arranged in a tandem array. Five genes from the array have been sequenced and their expression analyzed. The first two genes, cpb1 and cpb2, differ significantly from the remaining 17 copies (cpb3-cpb19) in that: 1) they are expressed predominantly in metacyclic promastigotes (the form in the insect vector which is infective to mammalian macrophages) rather than amastigotes (the form that parasitizes mammals); 2) they encode enzymes with a truncation in the COOH-terminal extension, an unusual feature of these cysteine proteinases of trypanosomatids. Transfection of cpb1 into a cpb null mutant resulted in expression of an active enzyme that was shown by immunogold labeling with anti-CPB antibodies to be targeted to large lysosomes. This demonstrates that the 100-amino acid COOH-terminal extension is not essential for the activation or activity of the enzyme or for its correct intracellular trafficking. Transfection into the cpb null mutant of different copies of cpb and analysis of the phenotype of th...Continue Reading

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