The roles of microsporidia spore wall proteins in the spore wall formation and polar tube anchorage to spore wall during development and infection processes
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TextSeries: ; Experimental parasitology, 187, p.93-100, 2018Contained works: - Yang, D
- Pan, L
- Chen, Z
- Du, H
- Luo, B
- Luo, J
- Pan, G
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Microsporidia are highly specialized obligate intracellular, spore forming divergent fungi with a wide variety host range that includes most vertebrates and invertebrates. The resistant spores are surrounded by a rigid cell wall which consists of three layers: the electron-lucent chitin and protein inner endospore, the outer-electron-dense and mainly proteinaceous exospore and plasma membrane. Interestingly, microsporidia owns a special invasion organelle, called polar tube, coiled within the interior of the spore wall and attached to anchoring disk at the anterior end of spore. Spore wall and polar tube are the major apparatuses for mature spores adhering and infecting to the host cells. In this review, we summarize the research advances in spore wall proteins (SWPs)related to spore adherence and infection, and SWPs and deproteinated chitin spore coats (DCSCs)interaction associated with SWPs deposit processes and spore wall assembly. Furthermore, we highlight the SWPs-polar tube proteins (PTPs)interaction correlated to polar tube orderly orientation, arrangement and anchorage to anchoring disk. Based on results obtained, it is helpful to improve understanding of the spore wall assembly and polar tube orderly arrangement mechanisms and molecular pathogenesis of microsporidia infection. Also, such information will provide a basis for developing effective control strategies against microporidia.
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