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Volume 270, Number 20, Issue of May 19, pp. 12133-12139, 1995
©1995 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Ramesh Ramamoorthy , Kristin G. Swihart , James J. McCoy , Mary E. Wilson , John E. Donelson

The major surface protease, gp63, of Leishmania chagasi is encoded by 18 or more tandem msp genes that can be grouped into three classes on the basis of their unique 3`-untranslated sequences (3`-UTRs) and their differential expression. RNAs from the mspLs occur predominantly during the logarithmic phase of promastigote growth in vitro, RNAs from the mspSs are present mainly in stationary phase, and RNAs from mspCs occur throughout growth in culture. All three classes of gp63 genes are constitutively transcribed during all growth phases, indicating that their expression is post-transcriptionally regulated. Chimeric plasmids containing the three different 3`-UTRs and downstream intergenic regions (IRs) fused downstream of the -galactosidase (-gal) coding region were transfected into L. chagasi, and their effects on -gal RNA processing and enzymatic activity were examined. The presence of the 3`-UTRs by themselves had no substantive effect on -gal expression. However, the 3`-UTR from a mspS plus its IR resulted in about 20-fold more -gal activity and RNA in stationary phase relative to logarithmic phase cells. In contrast, the 3`-UTRs plus IRs of mspL and mspC had either no or little effect, respectively, on -gal expression. Thus, differential expression of the mspLs and mspSs is post-transcriptionally controlled by different mechanisms.

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