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ZHOU, Mo; SUGANUMA, Keisuke; RUTTAYAPORN, Ngasaman; NGUYEN, Thu-Thuy; YAMASAKI, Shino; IGARASHI, Ikuo; KAWAZU, Shin-ichiro; SUZUKI, Yasuhiko; INOUE, Noboru; 五十嵐, 郁男; 井上, 昇. |
Trypanosoma congolense is a major livestock pathogen in Africa, causing large economic losses with serious effects on animal health. Reliable serodiagnostic tests are therefore urgently needed to control T. congolense infection. In this study, we have identified one T. congolense protein as a new candidate serodiagnostic antigen. The 46.4 kDa protein (TcP46, Gene ID: TcIL3000.0.25950) is expressed 5.36 times higher in metacyclic forms than epimastigote forms. The complete nucleotide sequences of TcP46 contained an open reading frame of 1,218 bp. Southern blot analysis indicated that at least two copies of the TcP46 gene were tandemly-arranged in the T. congolense genome. The recombinant TcP46 (rTcP46) was expressed in Escherichia coli as a glutathione... |
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Palavras-chave: Diagnosis; ELISA; Nagana; TcP46; Trypanosoma. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/3983 |
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