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ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2013

Expression of Pneumocystis jirovecii major surface glycoprotein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Geetha Kutty, Katherine J England, Joseph A Kovacs

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Article in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Immune Responses toJournal of inflammation research · 2026
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  2. Metabolic modulation:Cell surface (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024
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  3. Lung Epithelial Cell Line Immune Responses toJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  7. What We Do Not Know about Fungal Cell Adhesion Molecules.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
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  9. Host cell invasion by medically important fungi.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Geetha KuttyCritical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Katherine J England
Joseph A Kovacs
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center · US

Funding

The Characterization of Pneumocystis Surface AntigensZIACL000037 · CLC · CLINICAL CENTER · PI KOVACS, JOSEPH A · 2009 to 2018
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Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The major surface glycoprotein (Msg), which is the most abundant protein expressed on the cell surface of Pneumocystis organisms, plays an important role in the attachment of this organism to epithelial cells and macrophages. In the present study, we expressed Pneumocystis jirovecii Msg in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a phylogenetically related organism. Full-length P. jirovecii Msg was expressed with a DNA construct that used codons optimized for expression in yeast. Unlike in Pneumocystis organisms, recombinant Msg localized to the plasma membrane of yeast rather than to the cell wall. Msg expression was targeted to the yeast cell wall by replacing its signal peptide, serine-threonine-rich region, and glycophosphatidylinositol anchor signal region with the signal peptide of cell wall protein α-agglutinin of S. cerevisiae, the serine-threonine-rich region of epithelial adhesin (Epa1) of Candida glabrata, and the carboxyl region of the cell wall protein (Cwp2) of S. cerevisiae, respectively. Immunofluorescence analysis and treatment with β-1,3 glucanase demonstrated that the expressed Msg fusion protein localized to the yeast cell wall. Surface expression of Msg protein resulted in increased adherence of yeast to A549 alveolar epithelial cells. Heterologous expression of Msg in yeast will facilitate studies of the biologic properties of Pneumocystis Msg.

Indexed as

Bacterial AdhesionBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBlotting, WesternFlow CytometryGene ExpressionMicroscopy, FluorescenceMutagenesis, Site-DirectedOrganisms, Genetically ModifiedPneumocystis cariniiPolymerase Chain ReactionRecombinant ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsRecombinant Proteinsantigenic variationGPI anchored proteinmajor surface glycoproteinPneumocystis jiroveciiupstream conserved sequence

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PMID23532098
PMCPMC3666137
OpenAlexW2058584348

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