Identification and characterization a novel polar tube protein (NbPTP6) from the microsporidian Nosema bombycis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Microsporidians are opportunistic pathogens with a wide range of hosts, including invertebrates, vertebrates and even humans. Microsporidians possess a highly specialized invasion structure, the polar tube. When spores encounter an appropriate environmental stimulation, the polar tube rapidly everts out of the spore, forming a 50-500 µm hollow tube that serves as a conduit for sporoplasm passage into host cells. The polar tube is mainly composed of polar tube proteins (PTPs). So far, five major polar tube proteins have been isolated from microsporidians. Nosema bombycis, the first identified microsporidian, infects the economically important insect silkworm and causes heavy financial loss to the sericulture industry annually.

Results

A novel polar tube protein of

SUBMITTER: Lv Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7493173 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature