Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Disease Control, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.
Infect Genet Evol. 2013 Jan;13:56-66. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.08.024. Epub 2012 Sep 18.
The saliva of blood sucking insects contains potent pharmacologically active components that assist them in counteracting the host hemostatic and inflammatory systems during blood feeding. In addition, sand fly salivary proteins affect host immunity and have the potential to be a vaccine against Leishmania infection. In the present study, the salivary gland transcripts of Lutzomyia ayacuchensis, a vector of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes, were analyzed by sequencing randomly selected clones of the salivary gland cDNA library of this sand fly. This resulted in the identification of the most abundant transcripts coding for secreted proteins. These proteins were homologous to the salivary molecules present in other sand flies including the RGD-containing peptide, PpSP15/SL1 family protein, yellow-related protein, putative apyrase, antigen 5-related protein, D7 family protein, and 27 kDa salivary protein. Of note, homologues of maxadilan, an active vasodilator abundantly present in saliva of Lutzomyia longipalpis, were not identified. This analysis is the first description of salivary proteins from a sand fly of the subgenus Helcocyrtomyia and from vector of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the New World. The present analysis will provide further insights into the evolution of salivary components in blood sucking arthropods.
吸血昆虫的唾液中含有强效的药理学活性成分,有助于它们在吸血时对抗宿主的止血和炎症系统。此外,沙蝇唾液蛋白会影响宿主的免疫,并有潜力成为利什曼原虫感染的疫苗。在本研究中,通过对来自厄瓜多尔和秘鲁安第斯山脉的皮肤利什曼病的媒介 Lutzomyia ayacuchensis 的唾液腺 cDNA 文库的随机选择的克隆进行测序,分析了唾液腺转录本。这导致了鉴定出编码分泌蛋白的最丰富的转录本。这些蛋白质与其他沙蝇中的唾液分子同源,包括含有 RGD 的肽、PpSP15/SL1 家族蛋白、黄色相关蛋白、假定的 apyrase、抗原 5 相关蛋白、D7 家族蛋白和 27 kDa 唾液蛋白。值得注意的是,大量存在于 Lutzomyia longipalpis 唾液中的血管扩张剂 maxadilan 的同源物未被识别。这项分析是首次对新世界皮肤利什曼病媒介的 Helcocyrtomyia 亚属沙蝇的唾液蛋白进行描述。目前的分析将进一步深入了解吸血节肢动物唾液成分的进化。