Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: A comparison of the nAChRs of Caenorhabditis elegans and parasitic nematodes
| Autor: | Lindy Holden-Dye, Vincent O'Connor, Michelle Joyner, Robert J. Walker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Protein subunit
Xenopus Gene Expression Receptors Nicotinic Pharmacology Xenopus laevis Animals Caenorhabditis elegans Receptor Ascaris suum Acetylcholine receptor Anthelmintics Ascariasis biology Helminth Proteins biology.organism_classification Cell biology Protein Subunits Infectious Diseases Nematode Nicotinic agonist Levamisole Oocytes Haemonchus Parasitology Haemonchiasis |
| Zdroj: | Parasitology International. 62:606-615 |
| ISSN: | 1383-5769 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.parint.2013.03.004 |
| Popis: | Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) play a key role in the normal physiology of nematodes and provide an established target site for anthelmintics. The free-living nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, has a large number of nAChR subunit genes in its genome and so provides an experimental model for testing novel anthelmintics which act at these sites. However, many parasitic nematodes lack specific genes present in C. elegans, and so care is required in extrapolating from studies using C. elegans to the situation in other nematodes. In this review the properties of C. elegans nAChRs are reviewed and compared to those of parasitic nematodes. This forms the basis for a discussion of the possible subunit composition of nAChRs from different species of parasitic nematodes. Currently our knowledge on this is largely based on studies using heterologous expression and pharmacological analysis of receptor subunits in Xenopus laevis oocytes. It is concluded that more information is required regarding the subunit composition and pharmacology of endogenous nAChRs in parasitic nematodes. |
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