Altered Protein Expression in the Ileum of Mice Associated with the Development of Chronic Infections with Echinostoma caproni (Trematoda)

作者：Cortes Alba^*; Sotillo Javier; Munoz Antoli Carla; Fried Bernard; Guillermo Esteban J; Toledo Rafael

来源：PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015, 9(9): e0004082.

DOI：10.1371/journal.pntd.0004082

Background
Echinostoma caproni (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) is an intestinal trematode that has been extensively used as experimental model to investigate the factors determining the expulsion of intestinal helminths or, in contrast, the development of chronic infections. Herein, we analyze the changes in protein expression induced by E. caproni infection in ICR mice, a host of high compatibility in which the parasites develop chronic infections.
Methodology/Principal Findings
To determine the changes in protein expression, a two-dimensional DIGE approach using protein extracts from the intestine of naive and infected mice was employed; and spots showing significant differential expression were analyzed by mass spectrometry. A total of 37 spots were identified differentially expressed in infected mice (10 were found to be over-expressed and 27 down-regulated). These proteins were related to the restoration of the intestinal epithelium and the control of homeostatic dysregulation, concomitantly with mitochondrial and cytoskeletal proteins among others.
Conclusion/Significance
Our results suggests that changes in these processes in the ileal epithelium of ICR mice may facilitate the establishment of the parasite and the development of chronic infections. These results may serve to explain the factors determining the development of chronicity in intestinal helminth infection.

• 出版日期2015-9