title: Characterisation of a novel interspersed Toxoplasma gondii DNA repeat with potential uses for PCR diagnosis and PCR-RFLP analysis.
abstract: A novel Toxoplasma gondii interspersed repeat element (TgIRE), present in most of the tachyzoite chromosomes, was characterised. Two regions on the TgIRE sequence showed high identity to two different T. gondii expressed sequence tag cDNAs of unknown function, which seems to be TgIRE pseudogenes. Two set of primers were designed, 2-2' and 2-3, that amplify products of 1.02 and 0.62 kb, respectively. T. gondii DNA from RH and Me49 strains was amplified with TgIRE 2-2' primers, and the respective 1.02 kb products were digested with several endonucleases. Different fragment patterns by gel electrophoresis were found only with MboI. Sensitivity analysis revealed that the set 2-3 was more sensitive than 2-2', detecting by gel visualisation the amount of DNA equivalent to 1 and 10 parasites, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Parasitología Sanitaria, Instituto Nacional de Parasitología Dr Mario Fatala Chabén, ANLIS Dr Carlos G. Malbrán, Av. Velez Sarsfield 563, 1281, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Echeverria
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Rojas
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Guarnera
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pszenny
authors.forename: S O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Angel
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000235:genetics*; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000175:diagnosis
chemical_list: D016054:DNA, Protozoan