Schistosoma mansoni Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1) nuclear interactome in cercariae. 2021

Natália Silva da Trindade, and Thaís Cunha de Sousa Cardoso, and Giulliana Galdini Costa, and Gabriela Freitas Cruvinel, and Ana Paula Masson, and Guilherme Pauperio Lanfredi, and Silmara Marques Allegretti, and Vitor Faça, and Matheus de Souza Gomes, and Enyara Rezende Morais, and Fernanda Janku Cabral
Biotechnology Institute and Multidisciplinary Group of Research, Science and Technology (RMPCT), Federal University of Uberlandia, Patos de Minas Campus, Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Department of Animal Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Schistosoma mansoni causes schistosomiasis, which affects 240 million people, and 700 million people are living at risk of infection. Epigenetic mechanisms are important for transcriptional control and are well-known conserved transcriptional co-regulators in evolution, already described in mammal, yeast, protozoa and S. mansoni, responsible for heterochromatization and gene silence mechanisms through the formation of complexes of transcriptional repression in chromatin. Previous results from another group have shown that HP1 (SmCBX) proteins form chromatin complexes with SmMDB2/3 proteins and regulate stem cells and oviposition in parasite adult worms. In addition, results from other groups have shown that cercariae are transcriptionally silent and epigenetic mechanisms are involved in the regulation of gene expression in this stage. In this work, our aim was to give insights into SmHP1 and proteins involved in transcriptional regulation in the cercariae stage. Using monoclonal anti-HP1 antibody for Western blotting, immunoprecipitation, and mass spectrometry, we preliminarily determined nuclear proteins that putatively interact with HP1 to form complexes to regulate gene expression, heterochromatin formation, and translational complexes in the cercariae stage. So far, our data is to give some insights into nuclear interactors in S. mansoni cercariae. SIGNIFICANCE: The significance of this original paper is the evidence for Heterochromatin Protein (HP1), interaction with nuclear proteins in the cercariae stage. Schistosoma mansoni cercariae are the infective stage of the human beings in endemic areas of schistosomiasis, a neglected disease, most prevalent in Brazil and Africa. While cercariae are waiting for a host, it does not feed, gene expression is silent and protein synthesis is stopped. These biochemical mechanisms are recovered when cercariae find a human host, but all proteins and mechanisms are not still elucidated. Until now, literature shows that these phenomena are regulated by epigenetics mechanisms, dependent of histone posttranslational modifications. But we have few pieces of evidence about the other proteins that participates in these processes and which are the co-regulators of expression.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D001938 Brazil A country located on the eastern coast of South America, located between Colombia and Peru, that borders the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, on the south by Uruguay, and on the west by Argentina. The capital is Brasilia.
D002868 Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone Nucleoproteins, which in contrast to HISTONES, are acid insoluble. They are involved in chromosomal functions; e.g. they bind selectively to DNA, stimulate transcription resulting in tissue-specific RNA synthesis and undergo specific changes in response to various hormones or phytomitogens. Non-Histone Chromosomal Proteins,Chromosomal Proteins, Non Histone,Chromosomal Proteins, Nonhistone,Non-Histone Chromosomal Phosphoproteins,Chromosomal Phosphoproteins, Non-Histone,Non Histone Chromosomal Phosphoproteins,Non Histone Chromosomal Proteins,Nonhistone Chromosomal Proteins,Proteins, Non-Histone Chromosomal
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000090266 Chromobox Protein Homolog 5 A protein located within beta-heterochromatin that is involved in suppression of POSITION EFFECT VARIEGATION. HP-1 Protein,Heterochromatin Protein 1,Heterochromatin-Specific Nonhistone Chromosomal Protein HP-1,HP 1 Protein
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D012550 Schistosoma mansoni A species of trematode blood flukes of the family Schistosomatidae. It is common in the Nile delta. The intermediate host is the planorbid snail. This parasite causes schistosomiasis mansoni and intestinal bilharziasis. Schistosoma mansonus,mansonus, Schistosoma
D058487 Cercaria The free-swimming larval forms of parasites found in an intermediate host.

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