Toxoplasma gondii:: A paraformaldehyde-insensitive diaphorase activity acts as a specific histochemical marker for the single mitochondrion
Toxoplasma gondii:: A paraformaldehyde-insensitive diaphorase activity acts as a specific histochemical marker for the single mitochondrion
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DOI:
10.1006/expr.1998.4266
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发表时间:
1998-05-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Gross, U
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作者:
Seeber, F;Ferguson, DJP;Gross, U
Seeber, F., Ferguson, DJP, and Gross, U. 1998. Toxoplasma electron microscopy, the mitochondrion of the parasite while host cell gondii: A paraformaldehyde-insensitive diaphorase activity acts as a mitochondria remain unstained thus allowing evaluation of parasite specific histochemical marker for the single mitochondrion. Experimen- numbers. tal Parasitology 89, 137–139. 1998 Academic Press T. gondii tachyzoites were cultivated as described previously Index Descriptors and Abbreviations: BSPT, 2-(2-benzothiazolyl)-(Boothroyd et al. 1995b). The strains used were RH, PLK, and RHβ1, 5-styryl-3-(4-phtalhydrazidyl) tetrazolium chloride; DPI, diphenylen- which is a lacZ transfected derivative of RH able to express Escherichia eiodonium chloride; DTNB, 5-5-dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid); coli β-galactosidase (Seeber and Boothroyd 1996). Parasites were used EDTA, ethylanediaminetetraacetic acid; EM, electron microscope; to infect human foreskin fibroblasts (HFF) seeded on coverslips in 24-HFF, human foreskin fibroblasts; ID, iodoniumdiphenyl–HCl; NBT, well plates and grown for 18 h prior to fixation with 4% paraformaldenitroblue tetrazolium; NOS, nitric oxide synthase; PBS, phosphate- hyde in 100 mM sodium cacodylate buffer, pH 7.4, for 20 min at room buffered saline; PFA, paraformaldehyde. temperature. This optimum fixation time was arrived at after examining the effects of no fixation and 20, 40, 60, and 120 min fixation. After washing in PBS, samples were incubated for 30 min at 37C in a solution containing 50 mM Tris, pH 8, 1 mg/ml NADPH, 0.2 mg/ml NBT, and 0.3% Triton X-100 which was prepared fresh every time. The rinsed coverslips were then mounted on slides and viewed with