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

Abstract

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.