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Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
The gene Ag-Aper1 encodes a peritrophic matrix (PM) protein from the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Ag-Aper1 gene expression and protein localization in the mosquito midgut were studied during the course of a blood meal. Ag-Aper1 mRNA abundance does not change appreciably during the course of blood ingestion and digestion. Prior to a blood meal, the protein is stored in secretory vesicles of midgut epithelial cells. Moreover, Ag-Aper1 colocalizes to the same secretory vesicles as trypsin, indicating that these proteins use a common secretory pathway. Blood feeding triggers the secretion of vesicle contents into the midgut lumen, after which Ag-Aper1 is incorporated into the PM. Newly synthesized Ag-Aper1 protein was again detected within the midgut epithelial cells at 60 h after blood ingestion.
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