Corvi Maria Martha, Alonso Andres Mariano, Caballero Marina Cecilia
Laboratorio de Parasitologia Molecular, Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (IIBINTECH), CONICET-Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Intendente Marino Km 8,2, P.O. Box 164, Chascomús, B7130IWA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
J Biomed Biotechnol. 2012;2012:483969. doi: 10.1155/2012/483969. Epub 2012 Oct 3.
Apicomplexan parasites comprise a broad variety of protozoan parasites, including Toxoplasma gondii, Plasmodium, Eimeria, and Cryptosporidium species. Being intracellular parasites, the success in establishing pathogenesis relies in their ability to infect a host-cell and replicate within it. Protein palmitoylation is known to affect many aspects of cell biology. Furthermore, palmitoylation has recently been shown to affect important processes in T. gondii such as replication, invasion, and gliding. Thus, this paper focuses on the importance of protein palmitoylation in the pathogenesis of apicomplexan parasites.
顶复门寄生虫包括多种原生动物寄生虫,如弓形虫、疟原虫、艾美耳球虫和隐孢子虫属。作为细胞内寄生虫,它们建立致病机制的成功依赖于感染宿主细胞并在其中复制的能力。已知蛋白质棕榈酰化会影响细胞生物学的许多方面。此外,最近已表明棕榈酰化会影响弓形虫的重要过程,如复制、入侵和滑行。因此,本文重点关注蛋白质棕榈酰化在顶复门寄生虫致病机制中的重要性。