Ligand heterogeneity of the cysteine protease binding protein family in the parasitic protist Entamoeba histolytica
Ligand heterogeneity of the cysteine protease binding protein family in the parasitic protist Entamoeba histolytica
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10.1016/j.ijpara.2014.04.008
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发表时间:
2014-08-01
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Nozaki, Tomoyoshi
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作者:
Marumo, Konomi;Nakada-Tsukui, Kumiko;Nozaki, Tomoyoshi
Lysosomal soluble proteins are targeted to endosomes and lysosomes by specific receptors resident in the endoplasmic reticulum and/or the Golgi apparatus. The enteric protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica has a novel class of lysosomal targeting receptors, named the cysteine protease binding protein family (CPBF). Among 11 CPBFs (CPBF1-11), ligands for three members, CPBF1, CPBF6 and CPBF8, were previously shown to be cysteine proteases, alpha- and gamma- amylases, and beta-hexosaminidase and lysozymes, respectively. To further understand the heterogeneity of the ligands of CPBFs, we attempted to isolate and identify the ligands for other members of CPBFs, namely CPBF2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 11, by immunoprecipitation and mass spectrometric analysis. We found that CPBF2 and CPBF10 bound to alpha-amylases while CPBF7 bound to beta-hexosaminidases. It is intriguing that cysteine protease are exclusively recognised by CPBF1, whereas three alpha-amylases and beta-hexosaminidases are redundantly recognised by three and two CPBFs, respectively. It was shown by bioinformatics analysis and phylogenetic reconstruction that each CPBF contains six prepeptidase carboxyl-terminal domains, and the domain configuration is evolutionarily conserved among CPBFs. Taken together, CPBFs with unique and conserved domain organisation have a remarkable ligand heterogeneity toward cysteine protease and carbohydrate degradation enzymes. Further structural studies are needed to elucidate the structural basis of the ligand specificity. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of Australian Society for Parasitology Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).