Reconstruction of the insulin-like signalling pathway of Haemonchus contortus

N Mohandas; M Hu; AJ Stroehlein; ND Young; PW Sternberg; JB Lok; RB Gasser

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Reconstruction of the insulin-like signalling pathway of Haemonchus contortus

N Mohandas, M Hu, AJ Stroehlein, ND Young, PW Sternberg, JB Lok, RB Gasser

Parasites and Vectors | BMC | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1341-8

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Abstract

Background: In the present study, we reconstructed the insulin/insulin-like growth factor 1 signalling (IIS) pathway for Haemonchus contortus, which is one of the most important eukaryotic pathogens of livestock worldwide and is related to the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Methods: We curated full-length open-reading frames from assembled transcripts, defined the complement of genes that encode proteins involved in this pathway and then investigated the transcription profiles of these genes for all key developmental stages of H. contortus. Results: The core components of the IIS pathway are similar to their respective homologs in C. elegans. However, there is considerable vari..

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Funding Acknowledgements

Funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) is gratefully acknowledged, as is support from the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI; grant number VR0007) (RBG). Other support was from grants from the National Key Basic Research Program (973 program) of China (no. 2015CB150300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (no. 31172310) (MH) and from the National Institute of Health (NIH), USA (AI-50688) (JBL). We acknowledge the contributions of staff at WormBase (www.wormbase.org). AJS is a recipient of a Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS) and a Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS) from The University of Melbourne.