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Fernández Villamil SH, Vilchez Larrea SC. Poly(ADP-ribose) metabolism in human parasitic protozoa. Acta Trop 2020; 208:105499. [PMID: 32330449 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Revised: 04/13/2020] [Accepted: 04/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation reactions constitute a post-translational protein modification synthesized in higher eukaryotes by a family of poly(ADP-ribose)polymerases (PARP) and catabolized mainly by poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (PARG). The best understood role of PARP is the maintenance of genomic integrity via the promotion of DNA repair that leads to cell survival when low levels of genotoxic stress occur. The participation of PARP in unleashing cell death at higher levels of damage has also been broadly studied. The biology of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation in protozoan parasites, however, still remains a mystery. This review will examine the presence of the key enzyme involved in ADP-ribose polymer (PAR) metabolism in protozoan parasites associated with human diseases. Theoretical and experimental data obtained up to date have revealed the presence of PAR metabolism only in the trypanosomatids Trypanosoma cruzi and T. brucei, the apicomplexan Toxoplasma gondii and Entamoeba histolytica. T. cruzi and T. brucei, as opposed to humans and other organisms, have only one PARP and one PARG with subcellular localizations that are distinct from the ones described for their mammalian counterparts. The topics discussed in this review describe the first studies on PAR metabolism in trypanosomatids, specially the role of PAR on DNA damage response, cell cycle progression and cell death after genotoxic stimuli. The results described show differences in some aspects of PAR metabolism in trypanosomatids in comparison to other eukaryotes. New questions about the function of this metabolic pathway in the parasites under study are open and we hope it encourages the research community to explore this signaling pathway as a new possible target of clinical relevance in these and other disease-causing parasites.
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Affiliation(s)
- Silvia H Fernández Villamil
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular "Dr. Héctor N. Torres", Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Vuelta de Obligado 2490, C1428ADN Buenos Aires, Argentina; Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular "Dr. Héctor N. Torres", Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Vuelta de Obligado 2490, C1428ADN Buenos Aires, Argentina; Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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McCulloch R, Barry JD. A role for RAD51 and homologous recombination in Trypanosoma brucei antigenic variation. Genes Dev 1999; 13:2875-88. [PMID: 10557214 PMCID: PMC317127 DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.21.2875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Antigenic variation is an immune evasion strategy used by African trypanosomes, in which the parasites periodically switch the expression of VSG genes that encode their protective variant surface glycoprotein coat. Two main routes exist for VSG switching: changing the transcriptional status between an active and an inactive copy of the site of VSG expression, called the bloodstream VSG expression site, or recombination reactions that move silent VSGs or VSG copies into the actively transcribed expression site. Nothing is known about the proteins that control and catalyze these switching reactions. This study describes the cloning of a trypanosome gene encoding RAD51, an enzyme involved in DNA break repair and genetic exchange, and analysis of the role of the enzyme in antigenic variation. Trypanosomes genetically inactivated in the RAD51 gene were shown to be viable, and had phenotypes consistent with lacking functional expression of an enzyme of homologous recombination. The mutants had an impaired ability to undergo VSG switching, and it appeared that both recombinational and transcriptional switching reactions were down-regulated, indicating that RAD51 either catalyzes or regulates antigenic variation. Switching events were still detectable, however, so it appears that trypanosome factors other than RAD51 can also provide for antigenic variation.
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- R McCulloch
- The Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, The Anderson College, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G11 6NU, U.K.
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Oei SL, Griesenbeck J, Schweiger M. The role of poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 1997; 131:127-73. [PMID: 9204691 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-61992-5_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- S L Oei
- Institut für Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
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Penyige A, Vargha G, Ensign JC, Barabás G. The possible role of ADP ribosylation in physiological regulation of sporulation in Streptomyces griseus. Gene X 1992; 115:181-5. [PMID: 1612434 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(92)90557-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The role of ADP ribosylation of proteins in the physiological regulation of sporulation in Streptomyces griseus was studied. We report here that both the activity of NAD+: arginine ADP-ribosyltransferase (ADPRT) and the pattern of ADP-ribosylated proteins showed characteristic changes during the life cycle in S. griseus 2682. Analysis off ADP-ribosylated proteins revealed that in a nonsporulating mutant of the parental wild-type (wt) strain (Bld7 mutant), both the activity of ADPRT and the pattern of ADP-ribosylated proteins were different from those of the parental strain. Addition of 3-aminobenzamide (3AB), the most potent inhibitor of ADPRT, inhibited sporulation of S. griseus 2682 and the A-factor (AF)-induced sporulation of S. griseus Bld7, but in both cases the inhibitory effect of 3AB was strictly age-dependent. Using [alpha-32P]GTP, we have demonstrated the presence of GTP-binding proteins in purified cell membranes of S. griseus 2682 and S. griseus Bld7. The same GTP-binding proteins were observed in Bld7 and the wt. AF stimulated the basal GTPase activity of cell membranes of S. griseus 2682 in a concentration-dependent manner, suggesting that GTP-binding proteins might be involved in the AF-induced sporulation process.
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- A Penyige
- Department of Biology, University Medical School, Debrecen, Hungary
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Alsharif M, Apweiler R, Whish WJ, Branford White CJ, Brunt RV. Identification of ADPR-transferase activity in the rat tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1990; 96:527-31. [PMID: 2118019 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(90)90051-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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1. The nuclear fraction of the rat tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta (Cestoda) contains the enzyme adenosine diphosphoribosyl transferase (ADPR-transferase). 2. The enzyme catalyzes the postsynthetic modification of some nuclear proteins by the covalent attachment of the (ADP-ribose) moiety of NAD to such proteins. 3. The reaction is dependent on DNA which contains strand-breaks, and chain lengths equivalent to (ADP-ribose) is estimated. 4. The formation of polynucleotide products was competitively inhibited by 3-acetamidobezamide, with a Km of 125 microM. 5. The catalytic properties of ADPR-transferase in Hymenolepis diminuta are similar to those in T. brucei.
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- M Alsharif
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK
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Kelland LR, Tonkin KS. The effect of 3-aminobenzamide in the radiation response of three human cervix carcinoma xenografts. Radiother Oncol 1989; 15:363-9. [PMID: 2508193 DOI: 10.1016/0167-8140(89)90083-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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By means of growth delay measurements, the in vivo radiation response of three recently established human cervix carcinoma xenograft lines has been determined at both high (70 cGy/min) and low dose rate (5 cGy/min). In addition, we have investigated the role of the polyADP-ribosylation inhibitor, 3-aminobenzamide, (3-AB, administered at 450 mg/kg) in modifying the xenograft response to continuous low dose rate irradiation (5 cGy/min). For all three lines, less growth delay was observed for 9 Gy administered at 5 cGy/min compared to 70 cGy/min; in terms of the times for tumours to reach twice their original weight (T2 values), low dose rate effect sparing ratios of 2.1 for HX 155, 1.5 for HX 156 and 2.4 for HX 160 were observed. 3-AB exerted no significant effect on the growth of unirradiated tumours. When 3-AB was given during irradiation at 5 cGy/min to 9 Gy, an enhancement in growth delay was observed for each line. However, the degree of radioenhancement by 3-AB varied among the lines; significant enhancement (p less than 0.01) at all time points tested was observed for HX 156, while for the other two lines, the degree of enhancement was not significant. Enhancement effect ratios (in terms of T2 values) were 1.37 for HX 155, 1.55 for HX 156 and 1.02 for HX 160. Similar differential radiosensitizing effects with 3-AB have been observed previously in vitro. More potent poly(ADP-ribosylation) inhibitors are probably required along with additional normal tissue studies before such an approach may be proposed at the clinical level.
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- L R Kelland
- Drug Development Section, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, U.K
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Farzaneh F, Panayotou GN, Bowler LD, Hardas BD, Broom T, Walther C, Shall S. ADP-ribosylation is involved in the integration of foreign DNA into the mammalian cell genome. Nucleic Acids Res 1988; 16:11319-26. [PMID: 3144706 PMCID: PMC339012 DOI: 10.1093/nar/16.23.11319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The most commonly used DNA transfection method, which employs the calcium phosphate co-precipitation of the donor DNA, involves several discrete steps (1,2). These include the uptake of the donor DNA by the recipient cells, the transport of the DNA to the nucleus, transient expression prior to integration into the host cell genome, concatenation and integration of the transfected DNA into the host cell genome and finally the stable expression of the integrated genes (2,3). Both the concatenation and the integration of the donor DNA into the host genome involve the formation and ligation of DNA strand-breaks. In the present study we demonstrate that the nuclear enzyme, adenosine diphosphoribosyl transferase (ADPRT, E.C. 2.4.2.30), which is dependent on the presence of DNA strand breaks for its activity (4,5) and necessary for the efficient ligation of DNA strand-breaks in eukaryotic cells (4,6), is required for the integration of donor DNA into the host genome. However, ADPRT activity does not influence the uptake of DNA into the cell, its episomal maintenance or replication, nor its expression either before or after integration into the host genome. These observations strongly suggest the involvement of ADPRT activity in eukaryotic DNA recombination events.
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- F Farzaneh
- Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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Taylor DR, Williams GT. Leishmania mexicana amazonensis: ADP-ribosyltransferase antagonists specifically inhibit amastigote to promastigote differentiation. Exp Parasitol 1988; 66:189-96. [PMID: 3135201 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4894(88)90090-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Leishmania mexicana amazonensis amastigotes were induced to differentiate by incubation at 27 C. Morphological transformation was studied both in untreated cultures and in cultures where DNA synthesis, and consequently the final stage in the production of promastigotes, was inhibited by hydroxyurea. 3-Methoxybenzamide and other antagonists of ADP-ribosyltransferase (ADPRT) specifically inhibited differentiation at a very early stage in both experimental systems. Cell proliferation (in the absence of hydroxyurea) was not inhibited by ADPRT antagonists--indeed greater multiplication of undifferentiated parasites was observed in the presence of these compounds. This indicated that the parasites were being diverted from differentiation to proliferation. Preincubation of the amastigotes with the ADPRT antagonists was required to produce this effect, providing further evidence that ADP-ribosylation of proteins is required for the initiation of differentiation in Leishmania.
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- D R Taylor
- Department of Anatomy, University of Birmingham, Medical School, United Kingdom
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Shall S. ADP-ribosylation of proteins: a ubiquitous cellular control mechanism. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1988; 231:597-611. [PMID: 3137789 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-9042-8_50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- S Shall
- Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory, University of Sussex, Brighton, England
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Cleaver JE, Morgan WF. 3-Aminobenzamide, an inhibitor of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, is a stimulator, not an inhibitor, of DNA repair. Exp Cell Res 1987; 172:258-64. [PMID: 3115799 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(87)90385-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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An inhibitor of poly(ADP-ribose) synthesis, 3-aminobenzamide (3AB), at low concentrations (0.01-0.1 mM) was found to reduce strand-break frequencies and increase repair replication in human lymphoid cells damaged by methyl methanesulfonate. A concentration of 0.1 mM 3AB was adequate to produce a maximum effect on strand-break frequencies and repair replication. This evidence, together with our previous measurements, demonstrates that 3AB cannot be regarded as an inhibitor of DNA repair; rather, it actually accelerates the ligation of DNA repair patches. Previous considerations of 3AB as a repair inhibitor may have derived from the use of excessive concentrations above 1 mM that may have stimulated additional damage and from the use of ethyl alcohol as a solvent for 3AB. Interpretations of the role of single-strand breaks and poly(ADP-ribose) in DNA repair, differentiation, and gene activity may need reevaluation because they have frequently been based on an erroneous notion of 3AB as a repair inhibitor, when its mode of action is, in fact, more complex.
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- J E Cleaver
- Laboratory of Radiobiology and Environmental Health, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Schlappack OK, Delic JI, Bush C, Stanley JA, Steel GG. The response of murine stem spermatogonia to radiation combined with 3-aminobenzamide. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION BIOLOGY AND RELATED STUDIES IN PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, AND MEDICINE 1987; 52:7-19. [PMID: 3110084 DOI: 10.1080/09553008714551431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The influence of 3-aminobenzamide (3-AB) on the radiation response of the stem spermatogonia of the CBA mouse has been investigated. Doses of 3-AB from 66 to 450 mg/kg, administered 1 h before irradiation, significantly enhanced stem-cell killing. Enhancement was observed when 3-AB (450 mg/kg) was given up to 5 h before, but not if administered after, irradiation. When radiation was delivered at a lower dose rate (5 cGy/min compared to 180 cGy/min) significant dose sparing was achieved for radiation alone. Pretreatment with 3-AB resulted in slightly less enhancement at the low dose rate than at the high. Split-dose studies (9 Gy total dose) with radiation alone resulted in a recovery ratio of 1.4-1.5. Administration of 3-AB before the first dose resulted in a similar recovery ratio, but if given immediately after the first dose the ratio was smaller. Pretreatment of mice with the radiosensitizer RSU-1069 indicated that at least some of the stem cells were radiobiologically hypoxic. We suggest therefore that the enhancement of spermatogonial stem-cell killing by 3-AB is not entirely due to inhibition of repair processes but may also involve modification of the oxygen status of the testis.
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Lamont GS, Cross GA. Effect of 3-aminobenzamide on the frequency of antigen switching in Trypanosoma brucei in vitro. Biochem Pharmacol 1987; 36:1750-1. [PMID: 3297066 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(87)90065-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Farzaneh F, Meldrum R, Shall S. Transient formation of DNA strand breaks during the induced differentiation of a human promyelocytic leukaemic cell line, HL-60. Nucleic Acids Res 1987; 15:3493-502. [PMID: 3106933 PMCID: PMC340744 DOI: 10.1093/nar/15.8.3493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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During the induced differentiation of the human promyelocytic leukaemic cell line, HL-60, along the myelocytic lineage, DNA strand-breaks are formed. These breaks which are formed in the face of a proficient DNA repair mechanism, are only transiently maintained and subsequently become religated. The ligation of these breaks requires the activity of the nuclear adenosine diphosphoribosyl transferase (ADPRT). Inhibition of nuclear ADPRT, an enzyme totally dependent on the presence of DNA strand-breaks for its activity and required for efficient DNA repair in eukaryotic cells, blocks the religation of these breaks but not their formation. The inhibition of DNA strand ligation in the differentiating HL-60 cells results in loss of viability and cell death.
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Timmers HT, de Lange T, Kooter JM, Borst P. Coincident multiple activations of the same surface antigen gene in Trypanosoma brucei. J Mol Biol 1987; 194:81-90. [PMID: 3612801 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(87)90717-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Trypanosomes with a coat of variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) 118, consistently appear around day 20 when a rabbit is infected with Trypanosoma brucei strain 427. There is a single chromosome-internal gene for VSG 118 and this is activated by duplicative transposition to a telomeric expression site. We show here that the expression-linked extra copy of VSG gene 118 in a day 18 population of a chronic infection is heterogeneous, and we infer that the population is not monoclonal but is the result of multiple independent activations of the 118 gene. We show that the heterogeneity of expression-linked extra copies is also present in other trypanosome populations expressing chromosome-internal VSG genes. We present a model for the timing of VSG gene activation during chronic infection that emphasizes two features: the relative activation and inactivation frequencies of different expression sites, and the degree of homology of the sequences flanking VSG genes with expression sites.
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Cleaver JE, Borek C, Milam K, Morgan WF. The role of poly(ADP-ribose) synthesis in toxicity and repair of DNA damage. Pharmacol Ther 1985; 31:269-93. [PMID: 3939630 DOI: 10.1016/0163-7258(85)90026-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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