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Monedero Alonso D, Pérès L, Hatem A, Bouyer G, Egée S. The Chloride Conductance Inhibitor NS3623 Enhances the Activity of a Non-selective Cation Channel in Hyperpolarizing Conditions. Front Physiol 2021; 12:743094. [PMID: 34707512 PMCID: PMC8543036 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.743094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Handbooks of physiology state that the strategy adopted by red blood cells (RBCs) to preserve cell volume is to maintain membrane permeability for cations at its minimum. However, enhanced cation permeability can be measured and observed in specific physiological and pathophysiological situations such as in vivo senescence, storage at low temperature, sickle cell anemia and many other genetic defects affecting transporters, membrane or cytoskeletal proteins. Among cation pathways, cation channels are able to dissipate rapidly the gradients that are built and maintained by the sodium and calcium pumps. These situations are very well-documented but a mechanistic understanding of complex electrophysiological events underlying ion transports is still lacking. In addition, non-selective cation (NSC) channels present in the RBC membrane have proven difficult to molecular identification and functional characterization. For instance, NSC channel activity can be elicited by Low Ionic Strength conditions (LIS): the associated change in membrane potential triggers its opening in a voltage dependent manner. But, whereas this depolarizing media produces a spectacular activation of NSC channel, Gárdos channel-evoked hyperpolarization's have been shown to induce sodium entry through a pathway thought to be conductive and termed Pcat. Using the CCCP method, which allows to follow fast changes in membrane potential, we show here (i) that hyperpolarization elicited by Gárdos channel activation triggers sodium entry through a conductive pathway, (ii) that chloride conductance inhibition unveils such conductive cationic conductance, (iii) that the use of the specific chloride conductance inhibitor NS3623 (a derivative of Neurosearch compound NS1652), at concentrations above what is needed for full anion channel block, potentiates the non-selective cation conductance. These results indicate that a non-selective cation channel is likely activated by the changes in the driving force for cations rather than a voltage dependence mechanism per se.
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- David Monedero Alonso
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR LBI2M, Station Biologique de Roscoff SBR, Roscoff, France.,Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR LBI2M, Station Biologique de Roscoff SBR, Roscoff, France.,Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR LBI2M, Station Biologique de Roscoff SBR, Roscoff, France.,Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR LBI2M, Station Biologique de Roscoff SBR, Roscoff, France.,Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR LBI2M, Station Biologique de Roscoff SBR, Roscoff, France.,Laboratory of Excellence GR-Ex, Paris, France
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Kelly JX, Winter RW, Braun TP, Osei-Agyemang M, Hinrichs DJ, Riscoe MK. Selective killing of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum by a benzylthiazolium dye. Exp Parasitol 2006; 116:103-10. [PMID: 17266952 PMCID: PMC1965281 DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2006] [Revised: 11/30/2006] [Accepted: 12/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Malaria is an infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium. The most virulent form of the disease is caused by Plasmodium falciparum which infects hundreds of millions of people and is responsible for the deaths of 1-2 million individuals each year. An essential part of the parasitic process is the remodeling of the red blood cell membrane and its protein constituents to permit a higher flux of nutrients and waste products into or away from the intracellular parasite. Much of this increased permeability is due to a single type of broad specificity channel variously called the new permeation pathway (NPP), the nutrient channel, and the Plasmodial surface anion channel (PSAC). This channel is permeable to a range of low molecular weight solutes both charged and uncharged, with a strong preference for anions. Drugs such as furosemide that are known to block anion-selective channels inhibit PSAC. In this study, we have investigated a dye known as benzothiocarboxypurine, BCP, which had been studied as a possible diagnostic aid given its selective uptake by P. falciparum infected red cells. We found that the dye enters parasitized red cells via the furosemide-inhibitable PSAC, forms a brightly fluorescent complex with parasite nucleic acids, and is selectively toxic to infected cells. Our study describes an antimalarial agent that exploits the altered permeability of Plasmodium-infected red cells as a means to killing the parasite and highlights a chemical reagent that may prove useful in high throughput screening of compounds for inhibitors of the channel.
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- Jane X. Kelly
- Medical Research Service, RD-33, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3710 SW U.S. Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR, USA 97239
- Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 97207-0751
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- Medical Research Service, RD-33, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3710 SW U.S. Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR, USA 97239
- Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 97207-0751
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- Medical Research Service, RD-33, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3710 SW U.S. Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR, USA 97239
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- Medical Research Service, RD-33, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3710 SW U.S. Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR, USA 97239
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- Medical Research Service, RD-33, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3710 SW U.S. Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR, USA 97239
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- Medical Research Service, RD-33, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3710 SW U.S. Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR, USA 97239
- Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 97207-0751
- Mailing Address: *Michael Riscoe, Ph.D., Medical Research Service, RD-33, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3710 SW U.S. Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, Oregon 97239 Phone Number: 503-721-7885/Telefacsimile: 503-402-2817/e-mail:
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Duranton C, Tanneur V, Brand V, Sandu CD, Akkaya C, Huber SM, Lang F. Permselectivity and pH-dependence of Plasmodium falciparum-induced anion currents in human erythrocytes. Pflugers Arch 2005; 450:335-44. [PMID: 15909180 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-005-1415-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2004] [Accepted: 03/17/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Intraerythrocytic survival of the malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum requires delivery of nutrients and disposal of waste products across the host erythrocyte membrane. Recent patch-clamp experiments have demonstrated inwardly and outwardly rectifying anion conductances in infected but not in control erythrocytes. A ClC-2-generated fraction of the inwardly rectifying current is activated by cell swelling and presumably subserves host cell volume regulation. In contrast, the outwardly rectifying current is insensitive to cell volume but allows the passage of lactate and is involved in the transport of nutrients. The present study was performed to characterize the permselectivity and pH sensitivity of the anion conductances using whole-cell recording. The outwardly rectifying and the inwardly rectifying currents exhibited permselectivities of Cl- > or = Br- approximately I- > SCN- and SCN- > I- > Br- > Cl-, respectively, as evident from the reversal potentials recorded under biionic conditions. While the inwardly rectifying current was not affected significantly by alterations of pH between 6.0 and 8.4, the outward rectifier was inhibited strongly by alkalinization to pH > or = 7.8. Fluxes of 14C-lactate and parasite growth were decreased markedly by the increase of bath pH, an effect that may at least in part be due to inhibition of the outward rectifier and subsequently impaired transport across the erythrocyte membrane.
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- Christophe Duranton
- Department of Physiology I, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Gmelinstrasse 5, 72076 Tubingen.
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Verloo P, Kocken CHM, Van der Wel A, Tilly BC, Hogema BM, Sinaasappel M, Thomas AW, De Jonge HR. Plasmodium falciparum-activated Chloride Channels Are Defective in Erythrocytes from Cystic Fibrosis Patients. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:10316-22. [PMID: 14679190 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m311540200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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An inwardly rectifying anion channel in malaria-infected red blood cells has been proposed to function as the "new permeation pathway" for parasite nutrient acquisition. As the channel shares several properties with the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), we tested their interrelationship by whole-cell current measurements in Plasmodium falciparum-infected and uninfected red blood cells from control and cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. A CFTR-like linear chloride conductance as well as a malaria parasite-induced and a shrinkage-activated endogenous inwardly rectifying chloride conductance with properties identical to the malaria-induced channel were all found to be defective in CF erythrocytes. Surprisingly, the absence of the inwardly rectifying chloride conductance in CF erythrocytes had no gross effect on in vitro parasite growth or new permeation pathway activity, supporting an argument against a close association between the Plasmodium-activated chloride channel and the new permeation pathway. The functional expression of CFTR in red blood cells opens new perspectives to exploit the erythrocyte as a readily available cell type in electrophysiological, diagnostic, and therapeutic studies of CF.
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- Patrick Verloo
- Department of Biochemistry, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Microfluidic systems are under development to address a variety of medical problems. Key advantages of micrototal analysis systems based on microfluidic technology are the promise of small size and the integration of sample handling and measurement functions within a single, automated device having low mass-production costs. Here, we review the spectrum of methods currently used to detect malaria, consider their advantages and disadvantages, and discuss their adaptability towards integration into small, automated micro total analysis systems. Molecular amplification methods emerge as leading candidates for chip-based systems because they offer extremely high sensitivity, the ability to recognize malaria species and strain, and they will be adaptable to the detection of new genotypic signatures that will emerge from current genomic-based research of the disease. Current approaches to the development of chip-based molecular amplification are considered with special emphasis on flow-through PCR, and we present for the first time the method of malaria specimen preparation by dielectrophoretic field-flow-fractionation. Although many challenges must be addressed to realize a micrototal analysis system for malaria diagnosis, it is concluded that the potential benefits of the approach are well worth pursuing.
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- Peter Gascoyne
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, 1515 Holcome Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Saliba KJ, Kirk K. Nutrient acquisition by intracellular apicomplexan parasites: staying in for dinner. Int J Parasitol 2001; 31:1321-30. [PMID: 11566300 DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7519(01)00258-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The intracellular forms of the apicomplexan parasites Plasmodium, Toxoplasma and Eimeria reside within a parasitophorous vacuole. The nutrients required by these intracellular parasites to support their high rate of growth and replication originate from the host cell which, in turn, takes up such compounds from the extracellular milieu. Solutes moving from the external medium to the interior of the parasite, are confronted by a series of three membranes --the host cell membrane, the parasitophorous vacuole membrane and the parasite plasma membrane. Each constitutes a potential permeability barrier which must be either crossed or bypassed. It is the mechanisms by which this occurs that are the subject of this review.
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- K J Saliba
- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia
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Krishna S, Webb R, Woodrow C. Transport proteins of Plasmodium falciparum: defining the limits of metabolism. Int J Parasitol 2001; 31:1331-42. [PMID: 11566301 DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7519(01)00254-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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In this review we give an account of transport processes occurring at the membrane interface that separates the asexual stage of Plasmodium falciparum from its host, the infected erythrocyte, and also describe proteins whose activities may be important at this location. We explain the potential clinical value of such studies in the light of the current spread of parasite resistance to conventional antimalarial strategies. We discuss the uptake of substrates critical to the survival of the intracellular malaria parasite, and also the parasite's homeostatic and disposal mechanisms. The use of the Xenopus laevis expression system in the characterisation of a hexose transporter ("PfHT1") and a Ca(2+) ATPase ("PfATP4") of the parasite plasma membrane are described in detail.
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- S Krishna
- Department of Infectious Diseases, St. George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, UK.
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Thomas SL, Egée S, Lapaix F, Kaestner L, Staines HM, Ellory JC. Malaria parasite Plasmodium gallinaceum up-regulates host red blood cell channels. FEBS Lett 2001; 500:45-51. [PMID: 11434924 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02579-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The properties of the malaria parasite-induced permeability pathways in the host red blood cell have been a major area of interest particularly in the context of whether the pathways are host- or parasite-derived. In the present study, the whole-cell configuration of the patch-clamp technique has been used to show that, compared with normal cells, chicken red blood cells infected by Plasmodium gallinaceum exhibited a 5-40-fold larger membrane conductance, which could be further increased up to 100-fold by raising intracellular Ca(2+) levels. The increased conductance was not due to pathways with novel electrophysiological properties. Rather, the parasite increased the activity of endogenous 24 pS stretch-activated non-selective cationic (NSC) and 62 pS calcium-activated NSC channels, and, in some cases, of endogenous 255 pS anionic channels.
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- S L Thomas
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 9042, Station Biologique, Place G. Teissier, 29682 Roscoff Cedex, France.
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