Avian Haemoproteidae. I. Description of Haemoproteus fallisi n. sp. and a review of the haemoproteids of the family Turdidae

1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 1269-1275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon F. Bennett ◽  
A. G. Campbell

Haemoproteus fallisi n. sp. is described from the American robin. Turdus migratorius L. Other hosts and geographical range are cited and a summary of haemoproteid infections in the Turdidae is included. H. fallisi is compared with other haemoproteids described from the Turdidae, H. moruony de Mello and Braz de Sa is synonomized with H. fringillae and H. orizivora. H. geocichla Cleland and Johnson is considered to be a nomen nudum. Haemoproteus danilewskyi, also recorded from the Turdidae, is distinguished from H. fallisi by its larger size and by the fact that it surrounds the host cell nucleus and occupies nearly all of the host cell cytoplasm.

2008 ◽  
Vol 160 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laetitia Vincensini ◽  
Gamou Fall ◽  
Laurence Berry ◽  
Thierry Blisnick ◽  
Catherine Braun Breton

1994 ◽  
Vol 300 (3) ◽  
pp. 821-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Benting ◽  
D Mattei ◽  
K Lingelbach

Plasmodium falciparum, a protozoan parasite of the human erythrocyte, causes the most severe form of malaria. During its intraerythrocytic development, the parasite synthesizes proteins which are exported into the host cell. The compartments involved in the secretory pathway of P. falciparum are still poorly characterized. A Golgi apparatus has not been identified, owing to the lack of specific protein markers and Golgi-specific post-translational modifications in the parasite. The fungal metabolite brefeldin A (BFA) is known to inhibit protein secretion in higher eukaryotes by disrupting the integrity of the Golgi apparatus. We have used the parasite-encoded glycophorin-binding protein (GBP), a soluble protein found in the host cell cytoplasm, as a marker to investigate the effects of BFA on protein secretion in the intracellular parasite. In the presence of BFA, GBP was not transported into the erythrocyte, but remained inside the parasite cell. The effect caused by BFA was reversible, and the protein could be chased into the host cell cytoplasm within 30 min. Transport of GBP from the BFA-sensitive site into the host cell did not require protein synthesis. Similar observations were made when infected erythrocytes were incubated at 15 degrees C. Incubation at 20 degrees C resulted in a reduction rather than a complete block of protein export. The relevance of our findings to the identification of compartments involved in protein secretion from the parasite cell is discussed.


Planta ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 162 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietrich Werner ◽  
Erhard M�rschel ◽  
Renate Kort ◽  
Robert B. Mellor ◽  
Stephan Bassarab

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Lei ◽  
Manli Qi ◽  
Nicole Budrys ◽  
Robert Schenken ◽  
Guangming Zhong

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (11) ◽  
pp. 2018-2025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bodo E. G. Mueller

Eimeria canadensis sporozoites were inoculated into monolayer cultures of Madin–Darby bovine kidney and primary bovine embryonic kidney cells. Sporozoites retained their shape for at least 9 days. At that time, the nucleus was enlarged and contained a prominent nucleolus, and amylopectin granules were no longer apparent. The width of the parasitophorous vacuole (pv) between host cell cytoplasm and parasite pellicle widened during transformation of sporozoites into multinucleate schizonts. Areas of altered host cell cytoplasm immediately adjacent to the pv membrane increased in size and became confluent, resulting in the formation of two distinct layers of cytoplasm. The outer zone contained the host cell nucleus, mitochondria, Golgi stacks, and ER, whereas the inner layer appeared granular and was void of all cell organelles except structures resembling ribosomes. Microfilaments were abundant at the border between inner and outer zone. In the most advanced stages observed, host cell organelles persisted only in the perinuclear region. The remaining, attenuated cytoplasm resembled the former inner zone.The novel ultrastructural observation of a bilayered cytoplasm of cells harbouring E. canadensis schizonts is compared with light microscope reports of similar effects caused by other Eimeria species of ruminants and with electron microscope findings of altered intestinal and abomasal cells of sheep harbouring "globidial" schizonts.


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