Acquisition and analysis of lipophosphonoglycan 1 gene and the noncoding region of Leishmania donovani isolates from hilly foci of China

A fragment about 2.2 kb located at upstream of lipophosphonoglycan 1 (LPG1) gene of Leishmania donovani isolate from hilly foci of China was obtained by PCR. The nucleotide sequence of the fragment was determined by sequencing. The sequence of the LPG1 gene and its downstream fragment (about 2 kb) was determined by using genome walking method. The above two fragment splicing result showed that the nucleotide sequence of the LPG1 gene with the noncoding region was 4 121 bp (GenBank accession number: HMO27899). The BLAST results showed that the LPG1 gene of L. donovani isolate from hilly foci of China had 72%-78% nucleotide identity compared to that of other Leishmania spp. in GenBank.