Chemotactic attraction of infective hookworm larvae of Ancylostoma caninum by a dog serum factor.
Infective hookworm larvae of Ancylostoma caninum showed chemotaxis on agar plates in a dog serum gradient. This chemotactic behaviour remain unaltered using an ultrafiltrated serum fraction with a molecular weight less than 500. Gelfiltration of this ultrafiltrated fraction revealed a factor with a molecular weight of 480 causing chemotaxis. The chemotactic activity of the factor was destroyed after a pronase treatment. We conclude that the factor could be a polypeptide.
D000722:Ancylostoma / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D005591:Chemical Fractionation; D002630:Chemotactic Factors / Q000097:blood*; D002633:Chemotaxis; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D004285:Dogs / Q000097:blood*; D007814:Larva / Q000502:physiology; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011402:Pronase; D014462:Ultrafiltration
D002630:Chemotactic Factors; D011402:Pronase