Crithidia fasciculata induces encystation of Entamoeba invadens in a galactose-dependent manner
Crithidia fasciculata induces encystation of Entamoeba invadens in a galactose-dependent manner
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DOI：
10.2307/3284574
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发表时间：
1998-08-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Eichinger, D
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作者：
Cho, J;Eichinger, D
The ability of the flagellate Crithidia fasciculata to induce encystation of the reptile pathogen, Entamoeba invadens, was studied in vitro. A specific ratio of flagellate to amoeba was required; both live and heat-killed C. fasciculata induced amoebic encystation. The interaction between the Crithidia and Entamoeba cells was found to be galactose-mediated because the addition of galactose to the culture medium, or the pretreatment of the flagellate with galactosidase, eliminated its ability to induce encystation. Galactose was also found to prevent the amoeba-amoeba aggregation that normally occurs in axenic cultures of encystation-induced E. invadens. Both galactose and glcNAc completely inhibited cyst formation of these induced cultures, although the latter sugar did not prevent cell aggregation. These results indicate that a galactose-mediated interaction between E. invadens cells is an early step in the in vitro encystation pathway.
