Argonaute function in Entamoeba histolytica

Argonaute 在溶组织内阿米巴中的功能

• 批准号: 8889955
• 负责人: UPINDER SINGH
• 金额: $ 24.08万
• 依托单位: STANFORD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-15 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8889955
• 关键词: Affect; Amoeba genus; Binding; Biochemical; Bioinformatics; Biological Assay; Biological Process; Biology; Cause of Death; Cell physiology; Cells; Complex; Core Protein; Cyst; Data; Disease; Dysentery; Enabling Factors; Entamoeba; Entamoeba histolytica; Environment; Eukaryota; Exploratory/Developmental Grant; Figs - dietary; Gene Expression; Gene Expression Regulation; Gene Family; Gene Silencing; Genes; Genomics; Goals; Grant; Health; Human; Immunoprecipitation; Knowledge; Libraries; Liver Abscess; Mediating; Messenger RNA; Molecular; Nematoda; Nuclear; Organism; Parasites; Pathogenesis; Pathway interactions; Polyps; Population; Process; Protein Family; Proteins; RNA Interference; RNA Interference Pathway; RNA Sequence Analysis; RNA library; RNA-Induced Silencing Complex; Recombinant Proteins; Role; Sampling; Slice; Small RNA; Staging; System; Tissues; Translational Repression; Variant; Virulence; Work; base; experience; improved; insight; interest; novel; pathogen; protein complex; public health relevance

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Entamoeba histolytica, a protozoan parasite, is an important human pathogen. Diseases caused by E. histolytica include dysentery and liver abscesses and this organism is a leading parasitic cause of death on a global scale. Regulation of gene expression is a key factor that enables the parasite to adapt to the host environment during tissue invasion and to convert to the cyst stage and propagate disease outside the host. One mechanism of gene regulation in Entamoeba is a robust endogenous RNAi pathway, which controls expression of parasite genes related to virulence. However, the full repertoire of amebic biology controlled by RNAi is not known and little is known in Entamoeba about Argonaute proteins, the main protein effectors of the RNAi pathway. In E. histolytica, there are three Argonaute family genes that appear essential to amebic viability and have distinct cellular localization, hinting at unique-non overlapping functions. We aim to study the three Argonaute proteins in E. histolytica to determine (i) whether they have "slicing" activity which contributes o gene silencing, and (ii) the small RNA populations that associate with EhAGO2-1 and EhAGO2-3. These data will improve our understanding of the broader scope of Argonaute proteins in RNAi and also their specific roles in E. histolytica. Our work is at the intersection of the basic cellular process of RNA-interference and amebic biology. Data that emerge will contribute to both understanding amebic pathogenesis but also to expanding the knowledge about the fundamental process of RNAi.