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Dandugudumula R, Fischer-Weinberger R, Zilberstein D. Morphogenesis Dynamics in Leishmania Differentiation. Pathogens 2022; 11:952. [PMID: 36145385 PMCID: PMC9505065 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens11090952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Revised: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 08/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Leishmania, the causative agent of leishmaniasis, is an obligatory intracellular parasite that cycles between phagolysosome of mammalian macrophages, where it resides as round intracellular amastigotes, and the midgut of female sandflies, where it resides as extracellular elongated promastigotes. This protozoan parasite cytoskeleton is composed of stable and abundant subpellicular microtubules (SPMT). This study aims to determine the kinetics of developmental morphogenesis and assess whether microtubules remodelling is involved in this process. Using image-streaming technology, we observed that rounding of promastigotes during differentiation into amastigotes was initiated promptly after exposure to the differentiation signal. Stabilizing microtubules with taxol sped rounding, but later killed differentiating parasites if taxol was not removed. Microtubule destabilizers such as vinblastine had no effect on the rate of rounding, nor on the viability of differentiating parasites. In the reverse process, elongation is initiated after a delay of 7.5 and completed 72 h after exposure to the amastigote to the promastigote differentiation signal. During the delay, parasites became highly sensitive to treatment with microtubule destabilizers. The addition of vinblastine during the first 7.5 h halted differentiation and killed parasites. Between 8 and 24 h, parasites gradually became resistant to vinblastine and, in parallel, started to elongate. In contrast, taxol had no effect on parasite elongation, nor on the viability of these cells. In a parallel study, we showed that the Leishmania-specific protein kinase A (PKA) holoenzyme containing the LdPKAR3-C3 complex is essential for promastigote elongation. Mutant promastigotes lacking either of these proteins are round, but maintain their flagella. Here, we observed that during differentiation into amastigotes, these mutants round at the same rate as the wild type, but never exceed the WT density of round amastigotes. In the reverse process, these mutants undergo the same initial delay and then elongate at the same rate as the WT. They stop elongating when they reach 20% of elongated cells in mature promastigotes. Our analysis indicates that while promastigote rounding into amastigotes did not require microtubule remodelling, morphogenesis of round amastigotes into elongated promastigotes required microtubule rearrangement before elongation was initiated. This is the first study that investigates the dynamics of microtubules during parasite development.
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- Faculty of Biology, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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López ED, Díaz AR, Calderón OV, Lajkó E, Ponte-Sucre A, Kőhidai L. Chemotaxis in Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis: Evaluation by the two-chamber capillary assay. MethodsX 2021; 8:101223. [PMID: 34434746 PMCID: PMC8374177 DOI: 10.1016/j.mex.2021.101223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Chemotactic responses play a significant role during Leishmania (V.) braziliensis differentiation through its life cycle and during infection. The aim of this description has been to portray the modified “two-chamber capillary chemotaxis assay” as a technique useful for quantitative in vitro evaluation of Leishmania chemotaxis after reviewing the methods described until now to assess chemotaxis in vitro in Leishmania sp. This valued simple and reproducible method convenient for parasite migration determination, was tested by the use of controlled changes in monosaccharide (D-glucose and D-fructose) concentrations as referent ligands. The validation of the method demonstrates that this technique is useful to evaluate the relationship existing between parasite migration towards the monosaccharides and sugar concentration. This means that within specific ranges, parasites attracted by the monosaccharide migrate towards more concentrated solutions and accumulate (higher number of parasites) at that spot. Interestingly, both the time course of the experiment and the osmolality of the solution influence parasite migration capacity. Our validation suggests that this improved methodology quantitatively evaluates taxis of Leishmania towards/against different substances. On the basis of our herein presented data, we conclude that this technique is a novel, rapid and reliable screening method to evaluate chemotaxis in Leishmania.The two-chamber capillary chemotaxis assay was standardized for Leishmania. The technique is useful to quantitatively evaluate in vitro chemotaxis in Leishmania. Parasite migration was characterized by monosaccharide chemical gradients. This assay is a novel, rapid and reliable screening method to evaluate chemotaxis.
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- Emilia Díaz López
- Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine Luis Razetti, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine Luis Razetti, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine Luis Razetti, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Departament of Genetics, Cell and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest. Hungary
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- Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine Luis Razetti, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Departament of Genetics, Cell and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest. Hungary
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Nayak A, Akpunarlieva S, Barrett M, Burchmore R. A defined medium for Leishmania culture allows definition of essential amino acids. Exp Parasitol 2018; 185:39-52. [PMID: 29326050 DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2018.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2017] [Revised: 12/18/2017] [Accepted: 01/05/2018] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Axenic culture of Leishmania is generally performed in rich, serum-supplemented media which sustain robust growth over multiple passages. The use of such undefined media, however, obscures proteomic analyses and confounds the study of metabolism. We have established a simple, defined culture medium that supports the sustained growth of promastigotes over multiple passages and which yields parasites that have similar infectivity to macrophages to parasites grown in a conventional semi-defined medium. We have exploited this medium to investigate the amino acid requirements of promastigotes in culture and have found that phenylalanine, tryptophan, arginine, leucine, lysine and valine are essential for viability in culture. Most of the 20 proteogenic amino acids promote growth of Leishmania promastigotes, with the exception of alanine, asparagine, and glycine. This defined medium will be useful for further studies of promastigote substrate requirements, and will facilitate future proteomic and metabolomic analyses.
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- Archana Nayak
- Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation and Glasgow Polyomics, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation and Glasgow Polyomics, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation and Glasgow Polyomics, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation and Glasgow Polyomics, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
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Model MA, Petruccelli JC. Intracellular Macromolecules in Cell Volume Control and Methods of Their Quantification. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2018; 81:237-289. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctm.2018.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Proline racemases are conserved mitogens: characterization of a Trypanosoma vivax proline racemase. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2009; 165:170-9. [PMID: 19428664 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2009.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2008] [Revised: 01/24/2009] [Accepted: 02/02/2009] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Trypanosoma cruzi proline racemases (TcPRAC) are the only eukaryotic proline racemases described so far. Except their role in the interconversion of free L- and D-proline enantiomers, parasite TcPRACs are involved in major T. cruzi biological pathways. These essential enzymes are implicated in the process of parasite differentiation and the acquisition of virulence during metacyclogenesis and are currently considered as key targets for drug development against Chagas' disease. In this study, we searched for the presence of TcPRAC gene homologues among other trypanosomatid genomes. Despite the high degree of gene synteny observed in Kinetoplastidae genomes, PRAC genes are missing in Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma congolense and Leishmania spp. genomes. Interestingly, we identified a hypothetical PRAC gene in Trypanosoma vivax that is the major hemoparasite responsible for livestock trypanosomiasis, a serious economical impact for most of African and South American countries. We report here that the product of this T. vivax gene is bona fide a proline racemase with an activity comparable to the one we described previously for TcPRAC. Inhibition studies using the pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid confirmed that this compound is a competitive inhibitor for both TcPRAC and TvPRAC enzymes. Similarly to TcPRAC and all members of the racemase family studied so far in other pathogenic and nosocomial bacteria, our results show that TvPRAC is a T-cell-independent B-cell mitogen. Therefore the product of the novel TvPRAC gene identified in T. vivax and reported herein has the potential to be used as a drug target for this parasite-based trypanosomiasis.
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Rohloff P, Docampo R. A contractile vacuole complex is involved in osmoregulation in Trypanosoma cruzi. Exp Parasitol 2008; 118:17-24. [PMID: 17574552 PMCID: PMC2243178 DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2007] [Accepted: 04/25/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Acidocalcisomes are dense, acidic organelles with a high concentration of phosphorus present as pyrophosphate and polyphosphate complexed with calcium and other cations. Acidocalcisomes have been linked to the contractile vacuole complex in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Dictyostelium discoideum, and Trypanosoma cruzi. A microtubule- and cyclic AMP-mediated fusion of acidocalcisomes to the contractile vacuole complex in T. cruzi results in translocation of aquaporin and the resulting water movement which, in addition to swelling of acidocalcisomes, is responsible for the volume reversal not accounted for by efflux of osmolytes. Polyphosphate hydrolysis occurs during hyposmotic stress, probably increasing the osmotic pressure of the contractile vacuole and facilitating water movement.
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- Peter Rohloff
- Department of Pathobiology and Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinos at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
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- Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, Paul D. Coverdell Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
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Lefurgey A, Gannon M, Blum J, Ingram P. Leishmania donovani amastigotes mobilize organic and inorganic osmolytes during regulatory volume decrease. J Eukaryot Microbiol 2005; 52:277-89. [PMID: 15927005 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00030.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani encounters large fluctuations in osmolality as it cycles between its insect vector and human host. The flagellated promastigote exhibits regulatory volume responses involving organic and inorganic osmolytes, but little is known about volume regulation in the clinically relevant amastigote that multiplies within the parasitophorous vacuoles of mammalian host cells. Using a combination of morphological, X-ray microanalytical, and biochemical approaches we determined that non-motile amastigotes respond to hypotonic stress with (1) an amino acid and l-alanine-mediated regulatory volume decrease, and (2) a parallel release of Na+, K+, P (presumably as negatively charged phosphates), and subsequently Cl- from cytoplasm and the cell as a whole. In addition P, Zn2+, and subsequently Ca2+ increase in acidocalcisomes as Cl- content declines in this compartment. This evidence is the first to document subcellular translocation of, and thus a potential role for, zinc in volume regulatory responses. These coordinated changes in organic and inorganic osmolytes demonstrate that amastigote subcellular compartments, particularly acidocalcisomes, function in maintaining ionic homeostasis in the response of Leishmania amastigotes to hypo-osmotic stress.
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- Ann Lefurgey
- Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA.
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Maroulis SL, Schofield PJ, Edwards MR. Osmoregulation in the parasitic protozoan Tritrichomonas foetus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2003; 69:4527-33. [PMID: 12902238 PMCID: PMC169155 DOI: 10.1128/aem.69.8.4527-4533.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2002] [Accepted: 05/02/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Tritrichomonas foetus was shown to undergo a regulatory volume increase (RVI) when it was subjected to hyperosmotic challenge, but there was no regulatory volume decrease after hypoosmotic challenge, as determined by using both light-scattering methods and measurement of intracellular water space to monitor cell volume. An investigation of T. foetus intracellular amino acids revealed a pool size (65 mM) that was similar to that of Trichomonas vaginalis but was considerably smaller than those of Giardia intestinalis and Crithidia luciliae. Changes in amino acid concentrations in response to hyperosmotic challenge were found to account for only 18% of the T. foetus RVI. The T. foetus intracellular sodium and potassium concentrations were determined to be 35 and 119 mM, respectively. The intracellular K(+) concentration was found to increase considerably during exposure to hyperosmotic stress, and, assuming that there was a monovalent accompanying anion, this increase was estimated to account for 87% of the RVI. By using light scattering it was determined that the T. foetus RVI was enhanced by elevated external K(+) concentrations and was inhibited when K(+) and/or Cl(-) was absent from the medium. The results suggested that the well-documented Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl(-) cotransport system was responsible for the K(+) influx activated during the RVI. However, inhibitors of Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl(-) cotransport in other systems, such as quinine, ouabain, furosemide, and bumetanide, had no effect on the RVI or K(+) influx in T. foetus.
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- Sarah L Maroulis
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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LeFurgey A, Ingram P, Blum JJ. Compartmental responses to acute osmotic stress in Leishmania major result in rapid loss of Na+ and Cl-. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2001; 128:385-94. [PMID: 11223400 DOI: 10.1016/s1095-6433(00)00319-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The elemental composition of the cytoplasm, electron dense vacuoles, and heterochromatin and euchromatin regions of the nucleus of Leishmania major promastigotes was measured by electron probe X-ray microanalysis under iso-osmotic conditions (305 mOsM) and shortly after a sudden increase (to 615 mOsM) or decrease (to 153 mOsM) in the osmolality of the buffer in which they were suspended. In response to acute hypotonicity a complete loss of Na from the electron dense vacuoles and an approximately threefold decrease in the Na concentrations in the cytoplasm and the nuclear regions occurred, together with an approximately threefold decrease in Cl content in each compartment and a smaller (approx. 1.2-fold) decrease in K content. Thus, in addition to the rapid change in shape and release of amino acids known to occur in response to acute hypo-osmotic stress, a major efflux of Na and Cl, and, to a lesser extent, of K, also occurs. In response to acute hypertonicity Na in the acidocalcisomes did not change but Na content of the cytoplasm decreased by 33%. A small increase in the S content of the cytoplasm and the electron dense vacuolar compartments occurred. No changes were detectable in Ca or Zn content in any of the compartments examined in response to hypotonicity or hypertonicity.
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- A LeFurgey
- School of the Environment, Duke University, 27706, Durham, NC, USA
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Blum JJ, Lehman JA, Horn JM, Gomez-Cambronero J. Phospholipase D (PLD) is present in Leishmania donovani and its activity increases in response to acute osmotic stress. J Eukaryot Microbiol 2001; 48:102-10. [PMID: 11249184 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2001.tb00421.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We report here that the signaling molecule phospholipase D (PLD) is present in the parasitic protozoan Leishmania donovani. In vitro enzymatic activity is dependent on Ca2+ and Mg2+ ions, its basal activity is stimulated by phosphatidyl-inositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) and its pH optima are pH 8.0 and pH 6.0. PLD activity increases 3-fold about 5 min after an abrupt decrease in osmolality from 317 mOsm (isosmotic) to 155 mOsm and increases 1.5-fold in response to an abrupt increase in osmolality to 617 mOsM. Cells grown for > 24 h under the anisosmotic conditions showed only marginal changes in activity compared to the controls grown under isosmotic conditions, indicating an adaptation to long-term exposure to hypo- or hyper-osmolarity. Immunologically, two isoforms, PLD1 and PLD2, are present. An analysis of in vitro PLD activity in anti-PLD immunocomplexes revealed that either hypotonic (cell swelling) or hypertonic stress (cell shrinking) causes an increase in PLD1 activation but a reduction in PLD2 activity. The interplay between these two isoforms results in a predominance for PLD1 in the observed increase when measuring total PLD activity. Finally, the increase in enzymatic activity in acute hyposmotic shock is accompanied by tyrosyl phosphorylation of the PLD1 isoform, suggesting a role for protein tyrosine kinase in the control of PLD activity in response to osmotic stress.
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- J J Blum
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Maroulis SL, Schofield PJ, Edwards MR. The role of potassium in the response of Giardia intestinalis to hypo-osmotic stress. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2000; 108:141-5. [PMID: 10802328 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-6851(00)00203-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- S L Maroulis
- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Biagini GA, Kirk K, Schofield PJ, Edwards MR. Role of K+ and amino acids in osmoregulation by the free-living microaerophilic protozoon Hexamita inflata. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2000; 146 ( Pt 2):427-433. [PMID: 10708381 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-2-427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The primitive free-living protozoon Hexamita inflata was found to maintain a cell volume of approximately 260 fI under standard culture conditions. On increasing the extracellular osmolality the volume decreased and the cells remained shrunken for >30 min. By contrast, a decrease in the external osmolality resulted in a transient increase in cell volume which was followed by an efficient 'regulatory volume decrease' (RVD). H. inflata contains high concentrations of amino acids, with alanine constituting over 70% of the total amino acid pool. Exposure to hypo-osmotic medium resulted in the loss from the cell of both amino acids and K+, via one or more swelling-activated pathways. The efflux of amino acids and K+, together with a charge-balancing counter-anion, accounted almost fully for the observed RVD. The pharmacological properties of the swelling-activated pathways differ from those of volume-sensitive transporters and channels described previously in other cell types.
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- Giancarlo A Biagini
- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia1
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- Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia2
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- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia1
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- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia1
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Blum JJ, Cabantchik ZI, Vieira L. Kinetics of release of amino acids by Leishmania major. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1999; 103:101-4. [PMID: 10514085 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-6851(99)00071-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- J J Blum
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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Vieira LL. pH and volume homeostasis in trypanosomatids: current views and perspectives. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1376:221-41. [PMID: 9748588 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4157(98)00007-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- L L Vieira
- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 47069, Venezuela
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Park JH, Edwards MR, Schofield PJ. Swelling detection for volume regulation in the primitive eukaryote Giardia intestinalis: a common feature of volume detection in present-day eukaryotes. FASEB J 1998; 12:571-9. [PMID: 9576484 DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.12.7.571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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It is increasingly evident that cell swelling is associated with the triggering of many biological processes, including progression of the cell cycle, hormonal response, and gene expression. However, the mechanism by which cell swelling is initially sensed and converted into intracellular signals is still ill-defined. We report here an early event in the detection of cell swelling and initiation of the volume regulatory response in Giardia intestinalis, an ancient representative of the eukaryotic kingdom. Giardial cell swelling, irrespective of the extent, was sensed at a cell volume of 1.06 x isosmotic volume (the threshold volume), at which the transition of the volume regulatory transport system from the 'resting' to the 'open' state occurred. Irreversible modification by p-chloromercuribenzoate (pCMB) and N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) of reduced thiols affected the threshold volume, but in opposing manners: pCMB increased the threshold volume to 1.14 x and NEM decreased to 0.85 x isosmotic volume. The simple modification of the threshold volume by NEM caused a drastic reduction of giardial cell volume under isosmotic conditions, with a process strikingly similar to the opening of mitochondrial permeability transition pore, a causative event in stress-induced programmed cell death. Substantial evidence supports the hypothesis that modulation of the membrane thiol moieties at the threshold volume, causing the 'all-or-nothing' type of swelling detection, represents the event linking cell swelling to the second messenger systems for volume regulation in present eukaryotes. Pathophysiological implications of alteration of the threshold volume are discussed.
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- J H Park
- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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Park JH, Schofield PJ, Edwards MR. Giardia intestinalis: characterization of a NADP-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase. Exp Parasitol 1998; 88:131-8. [PMID: 9538867 DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Glutamate dehydrogenase from Giardia intestinalis was purified 680-fold to electrophoretic homogeneity with a 42% recovery through a two-step procedure. The most effective step in the purification was the use of CM-Trisacryl that eliminated nearly 99% of the total proteins with 100% recovery. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer was used to analyze the giardial glutamate dehydrogenase after deposition of the purified enzyme on a crystalline layer of 3,5-dimethoxy-4-hydroxy-trans-cinnamic acid. Use of this sample preparation technique allowed the first successful determination of the molecular mass of the enzyme (50,120 +/- 75). Since the molecular weight of the native enzyme was determined to be 270,000 by gel filtration, the enzyme appears to be a hexamer. The enzyme was specific for NADP(H) and functioned more favorably in the direction of glutamate formation than catabolism. The pH optimum was 7.5 for reductive amination of 2-oxoglutarate and 9.3 for oxidative deamination of glutamate. The apparent K(m) values were 0.28 mM for 2-oxoglutarate and 17 microM for NADPH. An unusual biphasic saturation curve characterized the effect of ammonium ion on the activity with a plateau between 40 and 55 mM.
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- J H Park
- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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Vieira LL, Lafuente E, Blum J, Cabantchik ZI. Modulation of the swelling-activated amino acid channel of Leishmania major promastigotes by protein kinases. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1997; 90:449-61. [PMID: 9476793 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-6851(97)00180-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Leishmania promastigotes respond to hypotonic challenges by a mechanism of regulatory volume decrease (RVD), whereby anionic amino acid channels (HAAC) are hypotonically-activated and intracellular amino acids are released from the cells. Irrespective of the experimental conditions, restoration of isotonicity triggered an immediate blockage of the amino acid release. Both the speed and amplitude of the response depended on the hypotonic stimulus and on the operation of intracellular signaling mechanisms. The initial (5 s) hypotonic-induced release of amino acids (ri) and the steady state levels of amino acids attained (5 min) or amplitude (A), were markedly affected by modulators of protein kinase C: phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, 1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol and phorbol 12,13-diacetate whereas staurosporine and the related analog, bis-indolylmaleimide I (GF-109203.X) inhibited the RVD response. Agonists of cAMP-dependent protein kinase A such as forskolin or (8-(4-chlorophenylthio))-adenosine-3',5'cyclic-monophosphate enhanced the speed of the response but had little effect on its amplitude. Neither 4alpha-phorbol 12,13-didecanoate,1,9-dideoxyforskolin nor genistein, tamoxifen or thapsigargin had any apparent effect on either parameter tested. The most striking stimulation of hypotonic-induced amino acid release was exerted by arachidonic acid or by its non-metabolizable analog, 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraynoic acid (ETYA). These agents caused a major increase in the initial rate of amino acid release as well as a higher amplitude of the response, both of which were markedly inhibited by an anion channel blocker. The present studies indicate not only that hypotonicity is an obligatory and dominant component in HAAC activation, but implicate specific second messengers in the modulation of the RVD response. The modes of activation or attenuation of HAAC activity apparently differ for PKC and PKA modulators as well as for arachidonic acid. The involvement of Ca2+ in HAAC was studied in hypotonic challenged cells which were treated with intracellular Ca2+-chelators or Ca2+-free medium. These cells showed a lag in AA release and a modest inhibition of the amplitude. The inhibition of HAAC was markedly increased when cells were treated with the ionophore A23187 in Ca2+-free media. The HAAC activity was accompanied by a significant increase in internal Ca2+ when performed in Ca2+-containing medium (from 88+/-9 to 179+/-22 nM) but by no significant change when measured in Ca2+-free medium. These studies indicate that although Ca2+ might be involved in the early activation phase of HAAC, it is either not absolutely required or its action might be associated with localized events.
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- L L Vieira
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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Lawrence F, Blum JJ, Robert-Gero M. Effect of osmotic stress on the rate of release of acid phosphatase by Leishmania donovani promastigotes. J Eukaryot Microbiol 1997; 44:206-7. [PMID: 9183707 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1997.tb05701.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- F Lawrence
- C.N.R.S., Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Park JH, Schofield PJ, Edwards MR. Giardia intestinalis: volume recovery in response to cell swelling. Exp Parasitol 1997; 86:19-28. [PMID: 9149237 DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.4130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The trophozoite from of the protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis is subjected to a changing osmotic environment in the small intestine of the host, and consequently effective osmoregulation and control of cell volume are essential to its survival. As a first step toward investigating the mechanism by which hypoosmotically-activated transport is controlled in this organism, we used a light scattering technique to monitor continuously changes in cell volume after osmotic challenge. There was a hyperbolic relationship between A550 and giardial protein concentration, resulting in linear double reciprocal plots and allowing the calculation of relative Giardia cell volumes from A550 values. The initial rate of cell swelling was directly proportional to the hypoosmotic gradient when the hypoosmotic difference was greater than 50 mOsm kg-1. However, a hypoosmotic challenge of < 30 mOsm kg-1 had little effect on cell swelling, suggesting that giardial cell rigidity can resist small changes in medium osmolarity. The use of light scattering as a measure of giardial cell volume changes was validated using a rapidly penetrating solute, ethylene glycol, to induce isoosmotic cell swelling. We have previously shown that trophozoites swelled initially when subjected to a hypoosmotic challenge and that a subsequent regulatory volume decrease was accompanied by rapid alanine efflux and activation of the uptake of an alanine analog, 2-aminoisobutyrate. The ethylene glycol-induced isoosmotic cell swelling was also followed by a regulatory volume decrease, accompanied by a similar rapid release of intracellular alanine and activation of 2-aminoisobutyric acid uptake. This suggests that an increase in cell volume is the primary stimulus for the rapid alanine efflux after hypoosmotic challenge.
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- J H Park
- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Vieira LL, Lafuente E, Gamarro F, Cabantchik Z. An amino acid channel activated by hypotonically induced swelling of Leishmania major promastigotes. Biochem J 1996; 319 ( Pt 3):691-7. [PMID: 8920968 PMCID: PMC1217844 DOI: 10.1042/bj3190691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Leishmania promastigotes accumulate amino acids (AAs) by an uphill transport mechanism that is dependent on membrane potential. The accumulated AAs provide the cell with an osmotic reservoir that can be utilized for osmoregulation. Exposure of Leishmania promastigotes to hypotonic media induced a rapid release of AAs that was proportional to the imposed osmotic gradients and independent of the ionic strength or the presence of Cl-, K+, Na+ or Ca2+ in the medium. The hypotonically activated AA release pathway was of relatively low chemical specificity. The solutes released included most of the zwitterionic and anionic AAs, predominantly alanine, hydroxyproline, glycine and glutamic acid, whereas cationic AAs were virtually excluded. AA release was markedly blocked by classical anion transport inhibitors such as the disulphonic stilbene 4,4'-diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulphonate (DIDS) and its dihydro derivative H2DIDS and others, by restoration of isotonicity or by lowering the temperature (4 degrees C). The temperature profile of AA release showed a low energy of activation (Ea 46 +/- 1.3 (S.E.M.) kJ/mol) in the range 15-30 degrees C and a very high Ea (147 +/- 8 kJ/mol) in the range 4-15 degrees C. Parasites exposed to hypotonic media containing AAs also showed a hypotonically stimulated AA uptake under favourable solute concentration gradients. This uptake was analogous for L- and D-isomers of threonine. After hypotonic exposure, cells underwent a depolarization that was largely prevented by anion transport blockers. On the basis of all these results we propose that after hypotonic stress Leishmania promastigotes restore their internal volume by a regulated release of AAs, which involves activation of channels that allow the passage of both neutral and anionic AAs and possibly other anionic substances.
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- L L Vieira
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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BLUM JJOSEPH, BALBER ANDREWE. Osmotic and Metabolic-Induced Changes in Light Scattering of Leishmania donovani as Measured by Flow Cytometry. J Eukaryot Microbiol 1996. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1996.tb01393.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The plasma membrane of most cells is drawn tightly over the cytoskeleton of the cell, resulting in a significant tension being developed in the membrane. The tension in the membrane can be calculated from the force required to separate it from the cytoskeleton; and the force itself can be measured rapidly by using laser tweezers. Recent observations indicate that decreasing membrane tension stimulates endocytosis and increasing tension stimulates secretion. Thus, membrane tension provides a simple physical mechanism to control the area of the plasma membrane. Here, we speculate that tension is a global parameter that the cell uses to control physically plasma membrane dynamics, cell shape and cell motility.
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- M P Sheetz
- Dept of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Phelouzat MA, Basselin M, Lawrence F, Robert-Gero M. Sinefungin shares AdoMet-uptake system to enter Leishmania donovani promastigotes. Biochem J 1995; 305 ( Pt 1):133-7. [PMID: 7826320 PMCID: PMC1136440 DOI: 10.1042/bj3050133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The involvement of a carrier for sinefungin (SF) uptake in Leishmania donovani promastigotes is indicated by saturation kinetics, competition studies and SF accumulation against a 270-fold concentration gradient across the cell membrane. Whether SF uptake occurs via nucleoside- or AdoMet-carrier systems was investigated by competition experiments and comparison of the uptake of various molecules in wild-type and SF-resistant cells. Results show that SF did not inhibit purine or pyrimidine uptake whereas it competitively inhibited AdoMet uptake. Furthermore, the uptake of nucleosides in SF-resistant cells is similar to that in wild-type cells, whereas uptake of SF and AdoMet is lower.
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- M A Phelouzat
- Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, C.N.R.S., Gif-sur Yvette, France
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Alanine plays a key role in the response of promastigotes to osmotic stress and to hypoxia. It is rapidly released in response to hypo-osmolality, is consumed from its large intracellular pool under iso-osmotic conditions even in the presence of glucose, and is synthesized under hyperosmotic conditions even in the absence of glucose. Its rate of oxidation, in the presence or absence of any of ten other amino acids tested, is strongly inhibited by hyperosmolality. Glucose oxidation is also inhibited by hyperosmolality, but to a lesser extent than that of alanine, and is inhibited by alanine, glutamate, and aspartate. Hyperosmolality also inhibits the incorporation of label from [2-14C]acetate into the putative storage carbohydrate, mannan, which occurs via the glyoxylate bypass and the as yet unexplored "mannoneogenic" pathway. The rates of glycolysis and of oxidation of several amino acids decrease with increasing culture age, but the capacity to oxidize fatty acids increases, and in cells from 3-day stationary phase cultures hyperosmolality enhances rather than inhibits alanine oxidation.
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- J J Blum
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Blum JJ. Effects of hypoxia, acute osmotic stress, and protein kinase inhibitors on the intermediary metabolism of Leishmania. J Eukaryot Microbiol 1994; 41:1-8. [PMID: 8124263 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1994.tb05925.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- J J Blum
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Keegan FP, Blum JJ. Incorporation of label from acetate and laurate into the mannan of Leishmania donovani via the glyoxylate cycle. J Eukaryot Microbiol 1993; 40:730-2. [PMID: 7904877 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1993.tb04467.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Leishmania donovani promastigotes in late-stationary phase incorporated label from [2-14C]acetate and [1-14C]laurate into the mannose residues of mannan, thus confirming the presence of a functional glyoxylate bypass in these parasitic protozoa. Isolated, washed calls also incorporated label from [2-14C]acetate and [1-14C]laurate into mannan during a 1-hr incubation in buffer. Glucose had no effect on label incorporation into mannan, but glutamate caused over a four-fold increase in incorporation from [2-14C]acetate and a 2.4-fold increase from [1-14C]laurate. Staurosporine, a protein kinase inhibitor that inhibits glutamate and alanine oxidation, did not inhibit label incorporation from [2-14C]acetate into mannan. Hyperosmolality caused about a 33% inhibition of label incorporation into mannan. These results show the glyoxylate cycle and/or the subsequent biosynthetic pathway from fructose-6-phosphate to mannan are subject to regulation.
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- F P Keegan
- Department of Biology, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina 27410
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Hamanaka SI, Pinto ADS. Growth and differentiation on a trypanosome of the subgenus Schizotrypanum from the bat Phyllostomus hastatus. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 1993; 26:225-30. [PMID: 8159823 DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86821993000400005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The effects of temperature, pH, osmolarity and aeration on the growth and differentiation of a trypanosome of the subgenus Schizotrypanum isolated from the bat Phyllostomus hastatus were studied. In general, the growth characteristics of the flagellate were similar to those of Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi. However, the parasite did not growth at 33 or 37 C. Increase in the osmolarity and aeration promoted growth at 33 C. Significant metacyclogenesis was detected only in the growth condition where maximal growth occurred (28 C, pH 7.3, 380 mOs/kg, in tissue culture flasks), at the end of the exponential growth phase. The beginning of the metacyclogenesis process was coincident with most glucose utilization and lowest pH. During metacyclogenesis both culture medium pH and osmolarity increased steadily.
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- S I Hamanaka
- Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
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In the course of their existence, parasites develop several metabolic pathways that differ significantly from those of their hosts. Despite the fairly close evolutionary kinship between Leishmania donovani and Trypanosoma brucei, the forms that live in the insect vectors have evolved different strategies for the disposition of available food resources. In this brief review, Joseph Blum will focus on the data available from studies on Leishmania spp and will largely ignore the information available from Trypanosoma spp.
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- J J Blum
- Duke University Medical Center, Department of Cell Biology, Division of Physiology, PO Box 3709, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Phelouzat MA, Lawrence F, Robert-Gero M. Characterization of sinefungin-resistant Leishmania donovani promastigotes. Parasitol Res 1993; 79:683-9. [PMID: 8295906 DOI: 10.1007/bf00932511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Promastigotes resistant to sinefungin (SF), a nucleoside antibiotic that is structurally related to S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet), were obtained starting from two cloned strains of Leishmania donovani. The resistance was induced by increasing the drug pressure gradually until promastigotes capable of growing in the presence of concentrations 10,000 times higher than the 50% growth-inhibitory (IC50) values for the control cells were obtained. The resistance to SF of both clones was specific and stable in the absence of drug pressure. High-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) analyses indicated highly reduced levels of SF in the two resistant clones. However, the intracellular SF concentration in these resistant cells was much higher than the IC50 values for wild-type cells. In one clone, the decreased drug uptake was coupled to a decrease in the affinity of two protein methylases for SF, whereas in the other clone the biosynthesis of polyamine precursors was modified. This study demonstrates that resistance to a drug molecule with pleiotropic targets can be developed through various mechanisms by different strains.
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- M A Phelouzat
- Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France
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Leishmania donovani promastigotes were grown to late log phase, washed and resuspended in iso-osmotic buffer containing L-arginine, and the rate of urea formation was then measured under various conditions. Addition of glucose or mannose activated urea formation, whereas 2-deoxyglucose inhibited and 6-deoxyglucose had no effect. Addition of alanine or of alpha-aminoisobutyrate inhibited urea formation, alanine causing a greater inhibition than alpha-aminoisobutyrate. Addition of leucine, proline, glycine, or lysine had no effect on urea formation. The presence of glutamate also increased the rate of urea formation from arginine, but to a lesser extent than did glucose. The presence of both glucose and alanine caused no net change in urea formation, whereas the inhibitory effect of alanine exceeded the activating effect of glutamate, so that a small inhibition in the rate of urea formation occurred in the presence of both alanine and glutamate. Cells grown to 3-day stationary phase had a markedly reduced rate of arginine catabolism to urea, but the activating effect of glucose and the inhibitory effect of alanine were qualitatively similar to their effects on late log phase cells. Addition of water to cells suspended in buffer also inhibited urea formation, but this appeared to be due primarily to the release of alanine caused by the hypo-osmotic stress. Addition of mannitol to cells suspended in buffer caused a small inhibition of arginine catabolism. Addition of dibutyrylcyclic AMP, 3',5'-cyclic GMP, phorbol myristic acid, or A23187 had no effect on the rate of urea formation from arginine.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- J J Blum
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Promastigotes from late-log phase cultures of Leishmania donovani were washed and resuspended in Hanks' Balanced Salt Solution without glucose or phenyl red but with 20 mM (N-[2-hydroxyethyl] piperazine-N'-[2-ethanesulfonic acid]) (HEPES) (HBSS-, 305 mOsm/kg). They were then added to a solution containing 86Rb such that the final osmolality and ionic composition was as desired. Samples were taken at known times and the amount of intracellular 86Rb was measured. Similarly, experiments were performed in which 86Rb was added to the cultures about 18 hr before collection, and the amount of 86Rb released from the washed cells was measured. Under iso-osmotic conditions only about 1.3% of the intracellular 86Rb was released in 900 sec. This increased about 4-fold if the osmolality was reduced from 305-153 mOsm/kg. This is much slower than the very rapid release of alanine in response to hypo-osmotic stress, indicating that alanine release is not via a non-specific pore. Reducing the temperature from 26 degrees C to 3-4 degrees C completely inhibits 86Rb release under iso-osmotic conditions and largely inhibits it under hypo-osmotic conditions. The rate of 86Rb release was not sensitive to K+ concentration and was not altered if chloride was replaced by sulfamate. Ouabain had no effect on either 86Rb uptake or release, but carbonylcyanide P-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone (FCCP) reduced the rate of 86Rb release and, after about a 300 sec exposure, completely inhibited 86Rb uptake. Amiloride partially inhibited 86Rb release, but had no effect on uptake. A decrease in pH from 7.1-5.9 had little effect on 86Rb release under iso-osmotic conditions and slightly increased the rate of release under hypo-osmotic conditions, but it decreased the rate of uptake under both iso-osmotic and hypo-osmotic conditions. Cells taken from 3-day stationary phase cultures released 86Rb more slowly under iso-osmotic conditions than cells from late log phase cultures, but were more responsive to hypo-osmotic stress than were log phase cells. These data appear to rule out an [Na-K-Cl] transporter or a [K-Cl] cotransporter as the means of K+ release, but are consistent with the possibility that a K+/H+ exchanger is present. The possibility that other carrier systems may be present is also discussed.
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- J J Blum
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Walsh MJ, Blum JJ. Effects of hypoxia and acute osmotic stress on intermediary metabolism in Leishmania promastigotes. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1992; 50:205-14. [PMID: 1741010 DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(92)90217-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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This study further explores the effects of hypoxia and acute osmotic stress on intermediary metabolism of Leishmania major and Leishmania donovani. Late log phase promastigotes were washed and incubated with glucose as the sole exogenous carbon source, and rates of glucose consumption and product formation were measured as a function of osmotic strength (610, 305, and 167 mOsm kg-1) and pO2 (95, 10, and 0% O2) in the presence of 5% CO2. Very mild hypoxia dramatically altered flux through the pathways of intermediary metabolism and increased the rates of production of the major metabolites, thus confirming the presence of a low-affinity O2 sensor which was active under all osmolalities tested. The data also require that as pO2 is lowered towards anoxia an endogenous carbohydrate source is mobilized. Under aerobic conditions, acute hypo-osmotic stress had little effect on product formation, whereas acute hyperosmotic stress altered metabolism in a manner similar to mild hypoxia, with the exception of decreasing the rates of acetate and succinate production. It was also shown in L. donovani promastigotes that the effects of anoxia and hyperosmolality were not additive. Thus, separate sensors with partially overlapping actions are involved in the metabolic responses to hypoxia and hyperosmolality. There was no apparent species-specificity for the responses to pO2 and osmotic stress. Uncoupling with carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone caused changes in metabolite flux patterns which differed from the changes caused by either hypoxia or acute osmotic stress, while rotenone and calcium ionophore A23187 had no significant effects. The identity of the sensors responsive to pO2 and osmolality, and the mechanisms by which they regulate flux through the pathways of intermediary metabolism, require further study.
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- M J Walsh
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710
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The metabolism of leucine by Leishmania donovani was investigated. Washed promastigotes were incubated with [1-14C]- or [U-14C]leucine or [1-14C]alpha-ketoisocaproate (KIC) and 14CO2 release was measured. The amount of KIC-derived acetyl-CoA oxidized in the citric acid cycle was computed. Promastigotes from mid-stationary phase cultures oxidized each of these labeled substrates less rapidly than cells from late log phase cultures, and significantly less acetyl-CoA derived from KIC oxidation was oxidized in the citric acid cycle. Glucose was a stronger inhibitor than was acetate of CO2 formation in the citric acid cycle in log phase promastigotes, but the reverse was observed in cells from mid-stationary phase. Alanine also inhibited leucine catabolism, but glutamate had little effect. Acute hypo-osmotic stress did not affect leucine catabolism, but hyper-osmotic stress caused appreciable inhibition of leucine oxidation. Cells grown under hypo- or hyper-osmotic conditions showed no changes in the effects of hypo- or hyper-osmotic stress on leucine catabolism, i.e. L. donovani is not an osmoconformer with respect to leucine metabolism. Leucine utilization in L. donovani was insensitive to a number of drugs that affect leucine metabolism in mammalian cells, indicating that the leucine pathway in L. donovani is not regulated in the same manner as in mammalian cells.
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- J J Blum
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Blum JJ. Effects of osmotic pressure on the oxidative metabolism of Leishmania major promastigotes. THE JOURNAL OF PROTOZOOLOGY 1991; 38:229-33. [PMID: 1679134 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1991.tb04434.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Leishmania major promastigotes were washed and resuspended in an iso-osmotic buffer. The rate of oxidation of 14C-labeled substrates was then measured as a function of osmolality. An acute decrease in osmolality (achieved by adding H2O to the cell suspension) caused an increase in the rates of 14CO2 production from [6-14C]glucose and, to a lesser extent, from [1,(3)-14C]glycerol. An acute increase in osmolality (achieved by adding NaCl, KCl, or mannitol) strongly inhibited the rates of 14CO2 production from [1-14C]alanine,[1-14C]glutamate, and [1,(3)-14C]glycerol. The rates of 14CO2 formation from [1-14C]laurate,[1-14C]acetate, and [2-14C]glucose (all of which form [1-14C]acetyl CoA prior to oxidation) were also inhibited, but less strongly, by increasing osmolality. These data suggest that with increasing osmolality there is an inhibition of mitochondrial oxidative capacity, which could facilitate the increase in alanine pool size that occurs in response to hyper-osmotic stress. Similarly, an increase in oxidative capacity would help prevent a rebuild up of the alanine pool after its rapid loss to the medium in response to hypo-osmotic stress.
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- J J Blum
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27706
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Burrows C, Blum JJ. Effect of hyper-osmotic stress on alanine content of Leishmania major promastigotes. THE JOURNAL OF PROTOZOOLOGY 1991; 38:47-52. [PMID: 1997677 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1991.tb04799.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Earlier studies showed that Leishmania major promastigotes are sensitive to osmotic conditions. A reduction in osmolality caused the cells to shorten and to rapidly release most of their large internal pool of alanine. In this study some effects of hyper-osmotic stress were examined. An increase in osmolality of the culture medium from 308 to 625 mOsm/kg caused only a small decrease in growth rate. When cells grown in the usual culture medium (308 mOsm/kg) were washed, resuspended in iso-osmotic buffer, and subjected to acute hyper-osmotic stress by addition of mannitol, the alanine content increased even in the absence of exogenous substrate. Promastigotes, depleted of alanine by a 5-min exposure to hypo-osmotic conditions, also synthesized alanine when resuspended in iso-osmotic buffer. Washed cells resuspended in iso-osmotic buffer consume their internal pool of alanine under aerobic conditions. Rates of consumption decreased on addition of mannitol, becoming zero at about 440 mOsm/kg. At higher osmolalities, alanine synthesis occurred. To estimate whether proteolysis could account for alanine synthesis in the absence of exogenous substrate, cells that had been grown with [1-14C]leucine were washed and resuspended under hypo-, iso-, and hyper-osmotic conditions and the amounts of 14CO2 and 14C-labelled peptides released in 1 h were measured. Little proteolysis occurred under these conditions, but the possibility that proteolysis was the source of the alanine increase, observed in response to hyper-osmotic stress, cannot be ruled out.
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- C Burrows
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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