Protein phosphorylation plays key roles in a variety of essential cellular processes. Fasciola gigantica is a tropical liver fluke causing hepatobiliary disease fascioliasis, leading to human health threats and heavy economic losses. Although the genome and protein kinases of F. gigantica provided new insights to understand the molecular biology and etiology of this parasite, there is scant knowledge of protein phosphorylation events in F. gigantica . In this study, we characterized the global phosphoproteomics of adult F. gigantica by phosphopeptide enrichment-based LC–MS/MS, a high-throughput analysis to maximize the detection of a large repertoire of phosphoproteins and phosphosites. A total of 1030 phosphopeptides with 1244 phosphosites representing 635 F. gigantica phosphoproteins were identified. The phosphoproteins were involved in a wide variety of biological processes including cellular, metabolic, and single-organism processes. Meanwhile, these proteins were found predominantly in cellular components like membranes and organelles with molecular functions of binding (51.3%) and catalytic activity (40.6%). The KEGG annotation inferred that the most enriched pathways of the phosphoproteins included tight junction, spliceosome, and RNA transport (each one contains 15 identified proteins). Combining the reports in other protozoa and helminths, the phosphoproteins identified in this work play roles in metabolic regulation and signal transduction. To our knowledge, this work performed the first global phosphoproteomics analysis of adult F. gigantica , which provides valuable information for development of intervention strategies for fascioliasis. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00436-021-07422-2.
Background: Protein phosphorylation plays key roles in a variety of essential cellular processes. Fasciola gigantica is a tropical liver fluke causing hepatobiliary disease fascioliasis, leading to public health threats and heavy economic losses. Although the genome and protein kinases of F. gigantica provided novel insights to understand the molecular biology and etiology of this parasite, there is scant knowledge of protein phosphorylation events in F. gigantica. Results: In this study, we characterized the phosphoproteome of F. gigantica. A total of 1030 phosphopeptides and 1005 phosphorylation sites were identified in 635 F. gigantica phosphoproteins. The bioinformatic analyses and homologous comparisons of these phosphoproteins identified their features participating in cellular processes including metabolic regulation and signal transduction. Conclusions: To the best of our knowledge, this work performed the global phosphoproteomic analysis in F. gigantica, which provides a valuable resource to facilitate the development of novel interventions targets in F. gigantica and related nematodes in the future.
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