• DOI:10.1017/S0031182006000953
• Corpus ID: 15959049

The invariant surface glycoprotein ISG75 gene family consists of two main groups in the Trypanozoon subgenus

@article{Tran2006TheIS,
  title={The invariant surface glycoprotein ISG75 gene family consists of two main groups in the Trypanozoon subgenus},
  author={Thao Kim Thi Tran and Filip Claes and Jean-Claude Dujardin and Philippe Būscher},
  journal={Parasitology},
  year={2006},
  volume={133},
  pages={613 - 621}
}

• T. Tran, F. Claes, +1 author P. Būscher
• Published 4 September 2006
• Biology
• Parasitology

In Trypanosoma brucei brucei, an invariant surface glycoprotein of molecular weight 75 kDa (ISG75) is uniformly distributed over the surface of a trypanosome and is specific for bloodstream-form parasites. For the other taxa of the Trypanozoon subgenus no data about this surface molecule are available. Therefore, we investigated the ISG75 in the genomes of several pathogenic Trypanozoon by Southern blot, PCR and RT-PCR and sequence analysisNucleotide sequence data reported in this paper are available in the GeneBank™, EMBL and DDBJ databases under the Accession numbers DQ200175-DQ200256.. This study reveals that (i) all members of the Trypanozoon subgenus, i.e. T. b. brucei, T. b. gambiense, T. b. rhodesiense, T. evansi and T. equiperdum, harbour ISG75 as multiple gene copies with at least 4–16 copies per genome; (ii) ISG75 gDNA and cDNA sequences are distributed in 2 groups that share at least 75% and 77% identity respectively; (iii) sequences from both groups are transcribed in all species and subspecies of the Trypanozoon subgenus; (iv) the main differences between group I and group II are located in the variable region at the amino-terminus of the putative proteins; (v) however, all the sequences in both groups have some well-conserved features, such as the cysteine residues, an amino-terminal cleavable signal peptide, a single α-helix transmembrane domain and a cytoplasmic domain at the carboxy-terminus.