Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2020, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (7): 1737-1747.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2020.07.026

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Extraction and Protein Profiling of Exosomes Derived from Trichomonas gallinae in Pigeon

NI Aixin1, LI Yunlei1, GE Pingzhuang1, WANG Panlin1, Adamu Mani Isa1, SHI Lei1, FAN Jing1, SUN Yanyan1, SUN Hong2, MA Hui1*, CHEN Jilan1*   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Animal(Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China;
    2. Beijing Youdi Pigeon Company, Beijing 101300, China
  • Received:2020-02-04 Online:2020-07-25 Published:2020-07-22

Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine whether Trichomonas gallinae (T. gallinae) secrete exosomes and investigate the protein composition of exosomes derived from T. gallinae. T. gallinae was isolated from upper digestive tract of infected pigeons and identified by microscopy and sequencing. Exosomes were extracted from serum absent culture medium, and further verified by transmission electron microscopy, Western blot and nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA). Label-free was used to identify the proteins of exosomes. Results showed that the parasite had T. gallinae morphology, and sequence alignment of ITS1/5.8S/ITS2 gene showed an identity of 98%. The isolated vesicles presented a typical cup-shaped morphology; NTA results showed that particle size concentrated on 125.1 nm, percentage of peak diameter at 132.3 nm was 99.3%; proteins such as CD63 and TSG101 were conspicuously detected, suggesting that the extracts were exosomes. Mass spectrometry results showed that enolase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, phosphoglycerate mutase and elongation factor were the highly expressed proteins. GO pathways showed that proteins of exosomes mainly enriched into cellular components such as intracellular and cytoplasmic, played GTP binding and GTPase activity function, and participated in biological process of small GTPase mediated signal transduction and glycolytic process. KEGG enrichment analysis showed that proteins of exosomes were enriched in pathways as metabolic pathways, glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, biosynthesis of antibiotics and secondary metabolites. These results indicated that T. gallinae can secrete exosomes and proteins of exosomes might play roles in energy metabolism, signal transduction and biosynthesis.

Key words: pigeon, Trichomonas gallinae, exosomes, Label-free technology, protein profiles

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