Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
- Volume 33 Issue 3
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- Pages.155-164
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- 1995
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- 2982-5164(pISSN)
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- 1738-0006(eISSN)
Localization of actin and myosin in Cryptosporidium parvum using immunogold staining
작은와포자충에서 면역황금염색법을 이용한 actin과 myosin의 위치 관찰
Abstract
The location of actin and myosin of the several stages of Cwptosporinium parvum was observed. The tissue antigen of C. pcruum was prepared through immunosuppression of IgG mice with Depomedrol . The thin sectioned specimens, which were incubated with the IgG fraction of the rabbit polyclonal antibodies raised against chicken back muscle actin and bovine uterus myosin, were treated with 10 nm gold-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG, Electrodense particles were located mainly on the pellicles of all observed developmental stages of the parasites. The number of actin gold particles in the cytoplasm increased when the parasite was dividing actively as in case of meronts. Especially in macrogametocytes, a lot of actin and myosin particles were synthesized and storaged as amilopectin-like bodies. There were many actin gold particles along the microspikes of cytoplasmic membranes in various developmental stages. The actin and myosin observed in this study may play important roles to control the shape of the parasites and movement of cytoplasmic membranes as cvtoskeletal proteins.
Cyptosporidium parvum의 발달 단계별 actin과 myosin의 분포 위치를 면역황금염색법을 이용하여 관찰하였다.