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Santos ALS, Rodrigues IA, d’Avila-Levy CM, Sodré CL, Ritmeijer K, Branquinha MH. Therapeutic Strategies against Leishmania and Trypanosoma. Pathogens 2023; 12:1263. [PMID: 37887779 PMCID: PMC10610452 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12101263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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Human African trypanosomiasis (also known as sleeping sickness, with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense as etiological agents), American trypanosomiasis (also known as Chagas disease, with Trypanosoma cruzi as the etiological agent), and leishmaniasis (including cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral forms, with multiple species belonging to the Leishmania genus as etiological agents) are recognized as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) [...].
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Affiliation(s)
- André L. S. Santos
- Laboratório de Estudos Avançados de Microrganismos Emergentes e Resistentes (LEAMER), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes (IMPG), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21941-902, RJ, Brazil;
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- Departamento de Produtos Naturais e Alimentos, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21941-902, RJ, Brazil;
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- Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Protozoologia, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Coleção de Protozoários da Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil;
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- Departamento de Biologia Celular e Molecular (GCM), Instituto de Biologia (IB), Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói 24210-201, RJ, Brazil;
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- Public Health Department, Médecins Sans Frontières, 1018 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
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- Laboratório de Estudos Avançados de Microrganismos Emergentes e Resistentes (LEAMER), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes (IMPG), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21941-902, RJ, Brazil;
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Branquinha MH, Sangenito LS, Oliveira SSC, d’Avila-Levy CM, Santos ALS. Chagas Disease Control-Many Approaches to Prospect. Trop Med Infect Dis 2023; 8:395. [PMID: 37624333 PMCID: PMC10459567 DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed8080395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Revised: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023] Open
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Chagas disease is an emerging and neglected tropical disease caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, estimated to infect 8 to 10 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization [...].
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- Marta H. Branquinha
- Laboratório de Estudos Avancados de Microrganismos Emergentes e Resistentes (LEAMER), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-902, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estudos Avancados de Microrganismos Emergentes e Resistentes (LEAMER), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-902, Brazil
- Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro, Nilópolis 26530-060, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estudos Avancados de Microrganismos Emergentes e Resistentes (LEAMER), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-902, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Protozoologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro 21040-360, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estudos Avancados de Microrganismos Emergentes e Resistentes (LEAMER), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-902, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-909, Brazil
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Oliveira SSC, Elias CGR, Dias FA, Lopes AH, d’Avila-Levy CM, Santos ALS, Branquinha MH. The Enhanced Expression of Cruzipain-Like Molecules in the Phytoflagellate Phytomonas serpens Recovered From the Invertebrate and Plant Hosts. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2022; 11:819133. [PMID: 35096661 PMCID: PMC8793489 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.819133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Phytomonas serpens is a protozoan parasite that alternates its life cycle between two hosts: an invertebrate vector and the tomato fruit. This phytoflagellate is able to synthesize proteins displaying similarity to the cysteine peptidase named cruzipain, an important virulence factor from Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease. Herein, the growth of P. serpens in complex medium (BHI) supplemented with natural tomato extract (NTE) resulted in the increased expression of cysteine peptidases, as verified by the hydrolysis of the fluorogenic substrate Z-Phe-Arg-AMC and by gelatin-SDS-PAGE. Phytoflagellates showed no changes in morphology, morphometry and viability, but the proliferation was slightly reduced when cultivated in the presence of NTE. The enhanced proteolytic activity was accompanied by a significant increase in the expression of cruzipain-like molecules, as verified by flow cytometry using anti-cruzipain antibodies. In parallel, parasites incubated under chemically defined conditions (PBS supplemented with glucose) and added of different concentration of NTE revealed an augmentation in the production of cruzipain-like molecules in a typically dose-dependent way. Similarly, P. serpens recovered from the infection of mature tomatoes showed an increase in the expression of molecules homologous to cruzipain; however, cells showed a smaller size compared to parasites grown in BHI medium. Furthermore, phytoflagellates incubated with dissected salivary glands from Oncopeltus fasciatus or recovered from the hemolymph of infected insects also showed a strong enhance in the expression of cruzipain-like molecules that is more relevant in the hemolymph. Collectively, our results showed that cysteine peptidases displaying similarities to cruzipain are more expressed during the life cycle of the phytoflagellate P. serpens both in the invertebrate and plant hosts.
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- Simone S. C. Oliveira
- Laboratório de Estudos Avançados de Microrganismos Emergentes e Resistentes (LEAMER), Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes (IMPG), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estudos Avançados de Microrganismos Emergentes e Resistentes (LEAMER), Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes (IMPG), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bioquímica de Microrganismos, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes (IMPG), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bioquímica de Microrganismos, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes (IMPG), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Protozoologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estudos Avançados de Microrganismos Emergentes e Resistentes (LEAMER), Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes (IMPG), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Bioquímica (PPGBq), Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estudos Avançados de Microrganismos Emergentes e Resistentes (LEAMER), Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes (IMPG), Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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d’Avila-Levy CM, Bearzatto B, Ambroise J, Helaers R, Butenko A, Yurchenko V, A. Morelli K, L. C. Santos H, Brouillard P, Grellier P, Gala JL, Vikkula M. First Draft Genome of the Trypanosomatid Herpetomonas muscarum ingenoplastis through MinION Oxford Nanopore Technology and Illumina Sequencing. Trop Med Infect Dis 2020; 5:tropicalmed5010025. [PMID: 32069939 PMCID: PMC7157233 DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Here, we present first draft genome sequence of the trypanosomatid Herpetomonas muscarum ingenoplastis. This parasite was isolated repeatedly in the black blowfly, Phormia regina, and it forms a phylogenetically distinct clade in the Trypanosomatidae family.
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- Claudia M. d’Avila-Levy
- Coleção de Protozoários, Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Protozoologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 21040-360, Brazil; (K.A.M.); (H.L.C.S.)
- de Duve Institute, University of Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium; (R.H.); (P.B.); (M.V.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +55-21-2562-1014
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- Centre de Technologies Moléculaires Appliquées, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium; (B.B.); (J.A.); (J.-L.G.)
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- Centre de Technologies Moléculaires Appliquées, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium; (B.B.); (J.A.); (J.-L.G.)
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- de Duve Institute, University of Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium; (R.H.); (P.B.); (M.V.)
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37005 České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic;
- Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, 71000 Ostrava, Czech Republic;
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- Life Science Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, 71000 Ostrava, Czech Republic;
- Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology, Sechenov University, 119435 Moscow, Russia
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- Coleção de Protozoários, Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Protozoologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 21040-360, Brazil; (K.A.M.); (H.L.C.S.)
- Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcântara Gomes, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20550-900, Brazil
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- Coleção de Protozoários, Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Protozoologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 21040-360, Brazil; (K.A.M.); (H.L.C.S.)
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- de Duve Institute, University of Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium; (R.H.); (P.B.); (M.V.)
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- Unité Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Microorganisme (UMR 7245 CNRS MCAM), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 75005 Paris, France;
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- Centre de Technologies Moléculaires Appliquées, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium; (B.B.); (J.A.); (J.-L.G.)
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- de Duve Institute, University of Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium; (R.H.); (P.B.); (M.V.)
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d’Avila-Levy CM, Yurchenko V, Votýpka J, Grellier P. Protist Collections: Essential for Future Research. Trends Parasitol 2016; 32:840-842. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2016] [Accepted: 08/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Sangenito LS, Gonçalves KC, Abi-chacra ÉA, Sodré CL, d’Avila-Levy CM, Branquinha MH, Santos ALS. Multiple effects of pepstatin A on Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigote forms. Parasitol Res 2011; 110:2533-40. [DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2796-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2011] [Accepted: 12/15/2011] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Pereira FM, Dias FA, Elias CG, d’Avila-Levy CM, Silva CS, Santos-Mallet JR, Branquinha MH, Santos AL. Leishmanolysin-like Molecules in Herpetomonas samuelpessoai Mediate Hydrolysis of Protein Substrates and Interaction with Insect. Protist 2010; 161:589-602. [DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2010.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2009] [Accepted: 12/22/2009] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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