Abstract
Toxoplasma gondii infects almost all the warm-blooded animals. ROP20 protein is expressed in the rhoptry of Toxoplasma gondii. In this study, the secondary structure of ROP20 was analyzed using SMART software. We constructed and analyzed the 3D model of ROP20 protein using SWISS-MODEL online procedure and Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) software. The structure analysis fully indicated that ROP20 protein is an important member of the ROP family. Furthermore, We used DNASTAR software and Epitope Database online service to analyze liner-B cell epitopes and T-cell epitopes of ROP20 protein. All the analysis results of ROP20 protein can provide positive information on treatment and vaccine for toxoplasmosis. Moreover, ROP20 gene was obtained from PCR, and a recombinant eukaryotic expression vector (pEGFP-C1-ROP20) was constructed in the following study. After restriction enzyme digestion, the constructed plasmid was transfected into HEK 293-T cells. The RT-PCR result indicated that the recombinant plasmid could transcribe successfully in HEK 293-T cell. The results of western blotting indicated the expressed proteins can be recognized by anti-STAg mouse sera.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University, the Central South University Sports Medicine Scholarship, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 81071373 and81271857), the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. ZR2016HM74) and the National College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (Grant No. 201710422116).
Conflict of interest
Conflict of interests: The authors wish to declare that there is no known conflict of interests associated with this publication.
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