Taxonomic group: protista / Euglenozoa
(Phylum: Euglenozoa)
Host organism: (mammal)
Organ / tissue: Life stage: epimastigoteAssociated disease: Chagas disease [ICD11:
1F53 
, ICD11:
XN56V ];
infection due to Trypanosoma cruzi [ICD11:
XN56V ]
NCBI PubMed ID: 21645882Publication DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2011.04.006Journal NLM ID: 0043535Publisher: Elsevier
Correspondence: R.M. de Lederkremer <lederk
qo.fcen.uba.ar>
Institutions: CIHIDECAR, Departamento de Quimica Organica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellon II, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
A dense glycocalix covers the surface of Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease. Sialic acid in the surface of the parasite plays an important role in the infectious process, however, T. cruzi is unable to synthesize sialic acid or the usual donor CMP-sialic acid. Instead, T. cruzi expresses a unique enzyme, the trans-sialidase (TcTS) involved in the transfer of sialic acid from host glycoconjugates to mucins of the parasite. The mucins are the major glycoproteins in the insect stage epimastigotes and in the infective trypomastigotes. Both, the mucins and the TcTS are anchored to the plasma membrane by a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor. Thus, TcTS may be shed into the bloodstream of the mammal host by the action of a parasite phosphatidylinositol-phospholipase C, affecting the immune system. The composition and structure of the sugars in the parasite mucins is characteristic of each differentiation stage, also, interstrain variations were described for epimastigote mucins. This review focus on the characteristics of the interplay between the trans-sialidase and the mucins of T. cruzi and summarizes the known carbohydrate structures of the mucins.
Trypanosoma cruzi, mucins, trans-sialidase, Chagas disease
Structure type: oligomer
Location inside paper: p. 1392, Fig. 3A, group II, compound 10
Trivial name: mucin oligosaccharide
Compound class: O-glycan
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_130646,IEDB_135813,IEDB_136044,IEDB_137340,IEDB_137472,IEDB_140108,IEDB_140122,IEDB_141794,IEDB_141807,IEDB_151531,IEDB_190606,SB_165,SB_166,SB_187,SB_195,SB_30,SB_7,SB_88
Comments, role: review
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 5693
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There is only one chemically distinct structure:
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