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Cloning and Sequence Analysis of C-terminal of Toxoplasma gondii DOC2 Gene

GAO Qi1,2, ZHANG Nian-zhang2, HU Ling-ying2,3, ZHOU Dong-hui2,ZHU Xing-quan2,WENG Ya-biao1   

  1. 1.College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China;2. Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province,State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, China; 3. College of Animal Science,Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
  • Received:2014-04-14 Online:2014-08-20 Published:2014-08-22

Abstract: In order to evaluate whether Toxoplasma gondii DOC2 gene could be used as a vaccine candidate antigen, the C-terminal of DOC2 gene was amplified by RT-PCR and then sent for sequencing. After translated the gene sequence into amino acid sequence, the basically biological characters, advanced structures and linear B cell epitopes of the C-terminal of DOC2 gene were predicted using multiple bioinformatics analysis. The results showed that the length of C-terminal of DOC2 gene was 1887 bp. The C-terminal of DOC2 protein was predicted contain 11 hydrophilic regions, 7 transmembrane domains,19 alpha regions, 1 beta turn, 17 random coils and 12 B cell epitopes, which suggested this protein was a probable vaccine candidate against Toxoplasma gondii infection.

Key words: Toxoplasma gondii; DOC2 gene; clone; bioinformatics analysis