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标题：Transgenic mice expressing human apolipoprotein A-I have sera with modest trypanolytic activity in vitro but remain susceptible to infection by Trypanosoma brucei brucei.
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作者：J S Owen ; M P Gillett ; T E Hughes 等
期刊名称：JLR Papers In Press
印刷版ISSN：0022-2275
电子版ISSN：1539-7262
出版年度：1992
卷号：33
期号：11
页码：1639-1646
语种：English
出版社：American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
摘要：Although Trypanosoma brucei brucei fatally infects livestock in much of sub-Saharan Africa, humans are innately resistant to infection, apparently because high-density lipoproteins (HDL) in human serum lyse this unicellular protozoan parasite. Recently, we demonstrated that purified human apolipoprotein (apo) A-I, the major protein (M(r) 28,016) constituent of HDL, had full trypanolytic activity in vitro whereas the apoA-I of cattle and sheep was non-lytic. In the present study, we have sought to confirm the trypanocidal capability of human apoA-I by studying four lines of transgenic mice expressing (supra)physiological serum levels of this polypeptide. Although trypanolysis in vitro by sera from transgenic mice (15.1 +/- 1.3% [mean +/- SEM], n = 30) was considerably less than by human sera (typically 60-80%), it was nevertheless significantly greater than by control sera (8.5 +/- 1.1%, n = 10; P