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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M200174200 on February 20, 2002

J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 19, 16489-16497, May 10, 2002
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Comparison of the Post-transcriptional Regulation of the mRNAs for the Surface Proteins PSA (GP46) and MSP (GP63) of Leishmania chagasi*

Karen S. MyungDagger §, Jeffrey K. BeethamDagger , Mary E. Wilson§||**Dagger Dagger , and John E. DonelsonDagger §§§

From the Departments of Dagger  Biochemistry, || Microbiology, and ** Internal Medicine and the § Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Iowa and the Dagger Dagger  Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52242

MSP (GP63) and PSA (GP46) are abundant 63- and 46-kDa glycolipid-anchored proteins on the surface of the promastigote form of most Leishmania species. MSP is a zinc metalloprotease that confers resistance to host complement-mediated lysis. PSA contains internal repeats of 24 amino acids, and its function is unknown. The steady state levels of mRNAs for both glycoproteins are regulated post-transcriptionally, resulting in about a 30-fold increase as Leishmania chagasi promastigotes grow in vitro from logarithmic phase to stationary phase. Previous studies showed the 3'-untranslated regions (3'-UTRs) of these mRNAs are essential for this post-transcriptional regulation. These two 3'-UTRs of 1.0 and 1.3 kilobases were cloned immediately downstream of a beta -galactosidase reporter gene in a plasmid, and segments were systematically deleted to examine which portions of the 3'-UTRs contribute to the post-transcriptional regulation. The 92-nucleotide segment of greatest similarity between the two 3'-UTRs was deleted without loss of regulation, but the segments flanking this similarity region have positive regulatory elements essential for the regulation. We propose that similar, but non-identical, molecular mechanisms regulate the parallel expression of these two L. chagasi mRNAs despite their lack of sequence identity. These post-transcriptional mechanisms resemble the mechanism recently suggested for the regulation of mRNAs encoding the dipeptide (EP) and pentapeptide (GPEET) repeat proteins in Trypanosoma brucei that involves interactions between positive and negative regulatory elements in the 3'-UTR.

* This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grants AI32135 and AI43050 and a Veterans Affairs Merit Review grant.The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

Present address: Dept. of Veterinary Pathology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011.

§§ To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 319-335-7934; Fax: 319-353-4204; E-mail: john-donelson@uiowa.edu.

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