Proteomic mapping of the lung vascular endothelial cell surface in Schistosoma bovis-infected hamsters

Abstract

Schistosomes are blood trematodes that are perfectly adapted to living in their intravascular habitat and to achieve this they have developed mechanisms enabling them to evade the immune and haemostatic responses of the host and to regulate endothelial cell function to favour their own survival. The objective of this work was to analyse the changes induced by Schistosoma bovis schistosomula in the proteome expressed by infected hamsters, over 10 and 20 days, on the endothelial surface of their pulmonary vasculature. To accomplish this, we subjected the lungs of non-infected and S. bovis-infected hamsters to vascular perfusion with a biotin ester reactive. Analysis by liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry analysis (LC-MS/MS) of endothelial surface proteins resulted in the identification of a total of 459 non-redundant proteins in the lung vasculature of infected and non-infected hamsters. Here we report the proteins identified, classified according to their biological function and cellular location, further analysing the differences in lung vascular proteomes between non-infected and S. bovis-infected hamsters for ten and twenty days. This work provides the first data on the vascular surface proteome of the lung after S. bovis infection and identifies some of the changes induced in it during infection.

Biological significance: To identify the changes induced by schistosomula larvae of Schistosoma bovis in the proteome of the pulmonary vasculature of the host, we compared the proteins expressed on the vascular endothelium of the lungs of non-infected and infected hamsters over 10 and 20 days. Mass spectrometry analysis (LC-MS/MS) of the proteins isolated from the vascular endothelium resulted in the identification of a total of 459 non-redundant proteins in the lung of infected and non-infected hamsters. The proteins identified are classified according to their biological function and cellular location, further analysing the differences in lung vascular proteomes between non-infected and S. bovis-infected hamsters. This work provides the first data on the vascular surface proteome of the lung after S. bovis infection and identifies some of the changes induced in it during infection suggesting the possible involvement of these proteins during parasite infection.

Keywords: Endothelium; Proteome; Pulmonary vasculature; Schistosoma bovis; Schistosomula.