畜牧兽医学报 ›› 2021, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (11): 2995-3005.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2021.011.001

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弓形虫蛋白质翻译后修饰研究进展

尹德琦, 魏子巍, 张义伟, 桑晓宇, 杨娜, 冯颖, 陈冉, 姜宁*   

  1. 沈阳农业大学动物科学与医学学院, 沈阳 110866
  • 收稿日期:2021-02-01 出版日期:2021-11-23 发布日期:2021-11-24
  • 通讯作者: 姜宁,主要从事人畜共患病相关研究,E-mail:jiangning1969@163.com
  • 作者简介:尹德琦(1992-),男,辽宁大连人,博士生,主要从事分子寄生虫学相关研究,E-mail:841693636@qq.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金面上项目(31972702)

Research Progress in Protein Post-translational Modifications of Toxoplasma gondii

YIN Deqi, WEI Ziwei, ZHANG Yiwei, SANG Xiaoyu, YANG Na, FENG Ying, CHEN Ran, JIANG Ning*   

  1. College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China
  • Received:2021-02-01 Online:2021-11-23 Published:2021-11-24

摘要: 弓形虫是一种复杂的单细胞原生动物寄生虫,通过入侵宿主细胞、分裂和诱导宿主细胞破裂等一系列的过程,在温血动物体内进行增殖。弓形虫的生物学特征受基因组、表观遗传及转录等多种因素的调控。蛋白质翻译后修饰(protein post-translational modifications,PTMs),如磷酸化、泛素化、巴豆酰化、棕榈酰化、琥珀酰化、乙酰化、甲基化、糖基化和二羟基异丁酰化等,是弓形虫调节对细胞外刺激的反应和生命周期转变的主要机制之一。弓形虫蛋白质翻译后修饰通过改变靶蛋白的定位、结构、活性、蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用等增加蛋白质的复杂性和多样性,从而在虫体生命周期的任何时间点都可以发挥至关重要的作用。在这篇综述中,作者重点对弓形虫蛋白质翻译后修饰进行简要总结,以期为深入研究弓形虫的生物学特征奠定基础。

关键词: 弓形虫, 顶复门寄生虫, 蛋白质翻译后修饰, 表观遗传学

Abstract: Toxoplasma gondii, as one of the Apicomplexa phylum parasites, which repeatedly goes through a cycle of invasion, division and induction of host cell rupture, which is an obligatory process for proliferation inside warm-blooded animals. It is known that the biology of the parasite is controlled by a variety of factors ranging from genomic to epigenetic to transcriptional regulation. One of the mechanisms by which Toxoplasma gondii likely regulates responses to extracellular stimuli and life cycle transitions is through protein post-translational modifications (PTMs). PTMs, such as phosphorylation, ubiquitination, crotonylation, palmitoylation, succinylation, acetylation, methylation, glycosylation and 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation, regulate numerous metabolic processes and every aspect of T. gondii biology. PTMs can play a vital role in any time of their lifespan, which through alterations of target protein localization, structure, activity, protein-protein interactions, among other functions, dramatically increase proteome complexity and diversity. In this review, we highlight the advanced insights into PTMs in T. gondii and their crosstalk, laying a foundation for in-depth study on the biological characteristics of T. gondii.

Key words: Toxoplasma gondii, apicomplexan parasite, protein posttranslational modifications, epigenetic

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