摘要
Objective: Chicken coccidiosis, caused by Eimeria sp., leads to huge economic losses in the poultry industry. This disease could be controlled by vaccination with different Eimeria precocious lines, which was selected by multiple continued propagation in chicken. Recent researches on Plasmodium revealed that a transcription factor apicomplexanAP2(ApiAP2) played a crucial role in the sexual commitment in its lifecycle. Here, to characterize the orthologous ApiAP2 gene in E. tenella(EtAp2) and its potential role in regulating Eimeria precocious, we constructed a transgenic E. tenella line over-expressing EtAp2. Methods: The transfection plasmid consists of a pyrimethamine selection maker(Toxoplasma gondii dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase) and fused immediately with an enhanced YFP reporter gene, the complete EtAp2 coding sequence was then linked by a "self-cleaving" 2A peptide sequence. This plasmid was regulated by the E. tenella Histone 4 promoter and C-terminal untranslated region of E. tenella Actin. Purified E. tenella sporozoites were transfected with the over-expressing vector and then inoculated into the MDBK bovine kidney cells and chickens. Results: The total transfection rate was 0.07% in the first generation oocysts measured by flow cytometry analysis. Both the transiently transfected sporozoites and the stable transfected E. tenella-Ap2 oocysts were expressing e YFP in a nuclear expressing manner. Conclusion: We constructed a transgenic E. tenella line over-expressing EtAp2 successfully. Our results established a basis for the further study on mining the downstream genes regulated by this transcription factor, which might helpful in understanding the mechanism of precocious.
Objective: Chicken coccidiosis, caused by Eimeria sp., leads to huge economic losses in the poultry industry. This disease could be controlled by vaccination with different Eimeria precocious lines, which was selected by multiple continued propagation in chicken. Recent researches on Plasmodium revealed that a transcription factor apicomplexanAP2(ApiAP2) played a crucial role in the sexual commitment in its lifecycle. Here, to characterize the orthologous ApiAP2 gene in E. tenella(EtAp2) and its potential role in regulating Eimeria precocious, we constructed a transgenic E. tenella line over-expressing EtAp2. Methods: The transfection plasmid consists of a pyrimethamine selection maker(Toxoplasma gondii dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase) and fused immediately with an enhanced YFP reporter gene, the complete EtAp2 coding sequence was then linked by a "self-cleaving" 2A peptide sequence. This plasmid was regulated by the E. tenella Histone 4 promoter and C-terminal untranslated region of E. tenella Actin. Purified E. tenella sporozoites were transfected with the over-expressing vector and then inoculated into the MDBK bovine kidney cells and chickens. Results: The total transfection rate was 0.07% in the first generation oocysts measured by flow cytometry analysis. Both the transiently transfected sporozoites and the stable transfected E. tenella-Ap2 oocysts were expressing e YFP in a nuclear expressing manner. Conclusion: We constructed a transgenic E. tenella line over-expressing EtAp2 successfully. Our results established a basis for the further study on mining the downstream genes regulated by this transcription factor, which might helpful in understanding the mechanism of precocious.
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