Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

The Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology (한국미생물·생명공학회)
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Encystation of Giardia lamblia by High Bile and Alkaline pH and Its Ultrastructural Changes during Encystation

  • Yong, Tai-Soon (Department of Parasitology and Institute of Tropical Medicdine, College of Medicine, Yonsei University) ;
  • Yang, Hye-Won (Department of Parasitology and Institute of Tropical Medicdine, College of Medicine, Yonsei University) ;
  • Im, Kyung-Il (Department of Parasitology and Institute of Tropical Medicdine, College of Medicine, Yonsei University) ;
  • Park, Soon-Jung (Department of Parasitology and Institute of Tropical Medicdine, College of Medicine, Yonsei University)
  • Published : 2000.06.01
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Abstract

Giardia lamblia, a human pathogen causing outbreaks of diarrhea, recently became a focus of great concerns in the fields of both medical and environmental microbioloty. To develop the experimental tools to study giardiasis, encystation, one of the major processes in its life cycle, was reconstituted by inducing an axenic culture of a flagellated form of G. lamblia into a cyst from under high concentration of bile and alkaline pH condition. The successful induction was confirmed by Northern analysis of resulting increased expression of the CWPl gene encoding the cyst wall protein 1. An examination of the encystation process with SEM (scanning electron microscopy) and TEM (transmission electron microscopy) revealed that the trophozoite, a flagellate with a bilateral symmetry, was transformed to a cyst form with an oval-shape and defined filamentous wall. The encystation was found to cause a disappearance of the flagella and an invagination of the adhesive disc. An extensive formation of rER (rough endoplasmic reticulum) was observed after 24h of induction, indication an active synthesis and export of proteins during this process. The vital staining of the invitro-induced systs showed that most cysts maintained their viability.

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