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Background  The phylum Apicomplexa comprises a wide variety of parasites of significant medical and economic relevance. These parasites have extremely different host and tissue tropisms; for example  Toxoplasma gondii  can invade virtually any nucleated cell and infect almost all warm-blooded vertebrates, whereas  Eimeria tenella  infects only chickens and is restricted in its growth to epithelial cells of the caecum. Proteins released from the microneme secretory organelles (MICs) are critical for apicomplexan invasion of host cells and allow parasites to bind a diverse range of host cell oligosaccharide epitopes. MICs bear modular arrangements of sequences with adhesive proteins and interestingly the sialic-acid binding MAR (microneme adhesive repeat) domain containing proteins (MCPs) are suggested to make significant contributions to the different host and tissue tropisms of  T. gondii  and  E. tenella .    Results  In this study, we evaluated the binding capacity of Type I MAR domains from novel  E. tenella  MCPs. Variants of the previously described HxT motif were analysed showing that HxT and VxT variants bind, whereas HxS and YxE variants did not. One of these MCP containing a single MAR (EtMCP2) showed an apical localization when expressed as a fusion with the fluorescent reporter mCherry in transgenic populations and a similar pattern of transcripts per zoite during endogenous development in vitro as the well-characterised microneme protein EtMIC2.    Conclusions  Variation in the binding properties of the MAR of different EtMCPs was confirmed and their ability to bind a wider range of sialic acids and terminal linkages should be studied. In addition, transgenesis technology has been used for first time in  Eimeria  parasites as a rapid tool for the study of endogenous protein localization by fusion with a fluorescent reporter.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (10.1186/s13071-017-2454-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Characterization of novel microneme adhesive repeats (MAR) in Eimeria tenella