title: Identification and recombinant expression of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase of Plasmodium falciparum.
abstract: The gene coding for the cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH; EC 1.2.1.12) was isolated from Plasmodium falciparum. The gene contains 1 intron and the A+T content is characteristic for the codon usage of P. falciparum. The predicted open reading frame codes for 337 amino acids (36651Da) and is 63.5% identical to the human erythrocytic GAPDH. GAPDH sequences from several field isolates of P. falciparum displayed 100% conservation. Phylogenetic analysis supports the hypothesis that dinoflagellates and Plasmodium are closely related. The protein encoded by the pfGAPDH was expressed recombinantly in Escherichia coli and exhibited enzymatic activity with NAD(+) but not with NADP(+) as cofactor. Antiserum raised against the recombinantly expressed enzyme detected specifically all developmental stages of cultured P. falciparum blood-stage parasites.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Tropical Institute, Molecular Immunology, Socinstrasse 57, 4002, Basel, Switzerland. claudia.daubenberger@unibas.ch
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Daubenberger
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pöltl-Frank
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lipp
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Certa
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pluschke
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases