Issue |
Parasite
Volume 4, Number 3, September 1997
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Page(s) | 203 - 216 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/1997043203 | |
Published online | 23 September 2014 |
Mise au point
Lectins (hemagglutinins) in the gut of the important disease vectors
Lectines (hémagglutinines) de l'intestin des principaux vecteurs
1
Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
2
Department of Parasitology, Charles University, Viničná 7, 128 40 Prague, Czech Republic.
* Correspondence : Libor Grubhoffer. Tel: 0042-38-41158, Fax : 0042-38-4774 E-mail : liborex@paru.cas.cz
Received:
7
January
1997
Accepted:
5
June
1997
The review is devoted to the gut lectins/hemagglutinins of the following representatives of important disease vectors : ticks, kissing-bugs, mosquitoes, sandflies and tsetse flies. The paper surveys the recent knowledge on these carbohydrate binding factors with respect to their structural and functional properties, and their significance for pathogen/parasite transmission by the blood-sucking arthropods. Recent results suggest that in most vectors the gut lectin activities are blood-meal enhanced, might participate in blood-meal processing and digestion and could serve as antibacterial and antiparasitic agents.
Résumé
La revue est consacrée aux lectines/hémagglutinines de l'intestin des principaux vecteurs de maladies : tiques, triatomes, moustiques, phlébotomes et mouches tsé-tsé. L'article fait le point des connaissances de ces facteurs liants des carbohydrates quant à leurs qualités structurales et fonctionnelles et leur caractère significatif en matière de transmission pathogène/parasite par les arthropodes hématophages. Les résultats récents montrent que chez la plupart des vecteurs l'activité des lectines de l'intestin est renforcée par la succion de sang, peut participer au processus de digestion du sang sucé et peut servir d'agent antibactérien et antiparasitaire.
Key words: lectins / hemagglutinins / gut / blood-sucking arthropods / vectors
Mots clés : lectines / hémagglutinines / intestin / arthropodes hématophages / vecteurs
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