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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 22, 19511-19520, May 31, 2002
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From the Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie du Centre de
Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de Université Laval and
the Département de Biologie Médicale, Faculté de
Médecine, Université Laval,
Québec G1V 4G2, Canada
Developmental regulation of mRNA levels in
trypanosomatid protozoa is determined post-transcriptionally and often
involves sequences located in the 3'-untranslated regions (3'-UTR) of
the mRNAs. We have previously identified a developmentally
regulated gene family in Leishmania encoding the amastin
surface proteins and showed that stage-specific accumulation of the
amastin mRNA is mediated by sequences within the 3'-UTR. Here we
identified a 450-nt region within the amastin 3'-UTR that can confer
amastigote-specific gene expression by a novel mechanism that increases
mRNA translation without an increase in mRNA stability.
Remarkably, this 450-nt 3'-UTR element is highly conserved among a
large number of Leishmania mRNAs in several
Leishmania species. Here we show that several of these
mRNAs are differentially expressed in the intracellular amastigote
stage of the parasite and that the 450-nt conserved element in their
3'-UTRs is responsible for stage-specific gene regulation. We propose
that the 450-nt conserved element, which is unlike any other regulatory
element identified thus far, is part of a common mechanism of
stage-regulated gene expression in Leishmania that
regulates mRNA translation in response to intracellular stresses.
A Common Mechanism of Stage-regulated Gene Expression in
Leishmania Mediated by a Conserved 3'-Untranslated
Region Element*
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This work was supported by Canadian Institutes of Health
Research Grant gr-14500 (to B. P.).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.
These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Recipient of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research studentship.
¶
Present address: Laboratoire de Biologie Parasitaire, Institut
de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France.
Member of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research group on
host-pathogen interactions. Fonds de Recherche en Santé de
Québec Senior Scholar. Burroughs Wellcome Fund New Investigator
in Molecular Parasitology. To whom correspondence should be addressed:
Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Pavillon CHUL, 2705 boul. Laurier, Ste-Foy,
Québec G1V 4G2, Canada. Tel.: 418-654-2705; Fax:
418-654-2715; E-mail: barbara.papadopoulou@crchul.ulaval.ca.
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