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Protistan parasites in order to ensure their viability and demonstrate successful progression in their life cycle need to respond towards various environmental stressors.  Blastocystis  sp. is known to be the most commonly found intestinal protistan parasite in any human stool surveys and has been incriminated to be responsible for diarrhea and bloating stomach. The present study demonstrates for the first time the presence of HSP70 in subtypes of  Blastocystis  sp. when the cultures were subjected to temperature of 39 and 41°C where the growth of parasites was reduced to a minimum to majority being granular forms. The growth of parasites exposed to higher temperatures however doubled compared to the controls when the parasites were re-cultured back at 37°C. Upon thermal stress at 41°C, subtype 3 and subtype 5 isolates' growth reached up to 2.97×10 6  and 3.05×10 6  cells/ml compared to their respective controlled culture tubes at 37°C which peaked only at 1.34×10 6  and 1.70×10 6  cells/ml respectively. The designed primer set that amplified  Blastocystis  sp. subtype 7 HSP70 gene in subtypes 1, 3 and 5 was against a conserved region. The gene was amplified at 318 bp. The multiple sequence alignment showed that the targeted sequence length ranges from 291–295 bp. The pair wise alignment result showed that the sequence identity among the four sequence ranges from 88% to 96%. These findings were further evidenced by the up regulation of HSP70 gene in thermal stressed isolates of subtype 3 and 5 at 41°C. Higher number of granular forms was significantly found in thermal stressed isolates of subtype 3 and 5 which implicates that this life cycle stage has a role in responding to thermal stress.

Identification and Characterisation of Heat Shock Protein 70 in Thermal Stressed Blastocystis sp