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Melo TG, Adesse D, Meirelles MDN, Pereira MCS. Trypanosoma cruzi down-regulates mechanosensitive proteins in cardiomyocytes. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 2019; 114:e180593. [PMID: 31433004 PMCID: PMC6697411 DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Cardiac physiology depends on coupling and electrical and mechanical
coordination through the intercalated disc. Focal adhesions offer mechanical
support and signal transduction events during heart contraction-relaxation
processes. Talin links integrins to the actin cytoskeleton and serves as a
scaffold for the recruitment of other proteins, such as paxillin in focal
adhesion formation and regulation. Chagasic cardiomyopathy is caused by
infection by Trypanosoma cruzi and is a debilitating
condition comprising extensive fibrosis, inflammation, cardiac hypertrophy
and electrical alterations that culminate in heart failure. OBJECTIVES Since mechanotransduction coordinates heart function, we evaluated the
underlying mechanism implicated in the mechanical changes, focusing
especially in mechanosensitive proteins and related signalling pathways
during infection of cardiac cells by T. cruzi. METHODS We investigated the effect of T. cruzi infection on the
expression and distribution of talin/paxillin and associated proteins in
mouse cardiomyocytes in vitro by western blotting, immunofluorescence and
quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). FINDINGS Talin and paxillin spatial distribution in T.
cruzi-infected cardiomyocytes in vitro were
altered associated with a downregulation of these proteins and mRNAs levels
at 72 h post-infection (hpi). Additionally, we observed an increase in the
activation of the focal adhesion kinase (FAK) concomitant with increase in
β-1-integrin at 24 hpi. Finally, we detected a decrease in the activation of
FAK at 72 hpi in T. cruzi-infected cultures. MAIN CONCLUSION The results suggest that these changes may contribute to the
mechanotransduction disturbance evidenced in chagasic cardiomyopathy.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tatiana G Melo
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Ultraestrutura Celular, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Biologia Estrutural, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Ultraestrutura Celular, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Ultraestrutura Celular, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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Adesse D, Iacobas DA, Iacobas S, Garzoni LR, Meirelles MDN, Tanowitz HB, Spray DC. Transcriptomic signatures of alterations in a myoblast cell line infected with four distinct strains of Trypanosoma cruzi. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2010; 82:846-54. [PMID: 20439965 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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We examined the extent to which different Trypanosoma cruzi strains induce transcriptomic changes in cultured L(6)E(9) myoblasts 72 hours after infection with Brazil (TC I), Y (TC II), CL (TC II), and Tulahuen (TC II) strains. Expression of 6,289 distinct, fully annotated unigenes was quantified with 27,000 rat oligonucleotide arrays in each of the four replicas of all control and infected RNA samples. Considering changes greater than 1.5-fold and P values < 0.05, the Tulahuen strain was the most disruptive to host transcriptome (17% significantly altered genes), whereas the Y strain altered only 6% of the genes. The significantly altered genes in the infected cells were largely different among the strains, and only 21 genes were similarly changed by all four strains. However, myoblasts infected with different strains showed proportional overall gene-expression alterations. These results indicate that infection with different parasite strains modulates similar but not identical pathways in the host cells.
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- Daniel Adesse
- Laboratorio de Ultra-estrutura Celular, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Adesse D, Lisanti MP, Spray DC, Machado FS, Meirelles MDN, Tanowitz HB, Garzoni LR. Trypanosoma cruzi infection results in the reduced expression of caveolin-3 in the heart. Cell Cycle 2010; 9:1639-46. [PMID: 20372051 DOI: 10.4161/cc.9.8.11509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Caveolae are motile, membrane-bound compartments that contain a number of molecules that participate in cell signaling. Caveolins are protein markers of caveolae and function in a variety of biological processes. Caveolin-3 (Cav-3) is expressed in muscle cells and Cav-3 null mice display a cardiomyopathic phenotype. Ultrastructural cytochemistry, confocal microscopy and immunoblotting revealed a reduction in Cav-3 expression and an activation of ERK (extracellular-signal-regulated kinase) 48 hours after Trypanosoma cruzi infection of cultured cardiac myocytes. CD-1 mice infected with the Brazil strain of T. cruzi displayed reduced expression of Cav-3 and activation of ERK 66 days post infection (dpi). By 180 dpi there was a normalization of these values. These data suggest that the reduction in Cav-3 expression and the activation of ERK during the early phase of infection may contribute to the pathogenesis of chagasic cardiomyopathy.
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- Daniel Adesse
- Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Garzoni LR, Rossi MID, de Barros APDN, Guarani V, Keramidas M, Balottin LBL, Adesse D, Takiya CM, Manso PP, Otazú IB, Meirelles MDN, Borojevic R. Dissecting coronary angiogenesis: 3D co-culture of cardiomyocytes with endothelial or mesenchymal cells. Exp Cell Res 2009; 315:3406-18. [PMID: 19769963 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2009.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2009] [Revised: 09/03/2009] [Accepted: 09/15/2009] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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In embryogenesis, coronary blood vessels are formed by vasculogenesis from epicardium-derived progenitors. Subsequently, growing or regenerating myocardium increases its vasculature by angiogenesis, forming new vessels from the pre-existing ones. Recently, cell therapies for myocardium ischemia that used different protocols have given promising results, using either extra-cardiac blood vessel cell progenitors or stimulating the cardiac angiogenesis. We have questioned whether cardiomyocytes could sustain both vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. We used a 3D culture model of tissue-like spheroids in co-cultures of cardiomyocytes supplemented either with endothelial cells or with bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stroma cells. Murine foetal cardiomyocytes introduced into non-adherent U-wells formed 3D contractile structures. They were coupled by gap junctions. Cardiomyocytes segregated inside the 3D structure into clumps separated by connective tissue septa, rich in fibronectin. Three vascular endothelial growth factor isoforms were produced (VEGF 120, 164 and 188). When co-cultured with human umbilical cord endothelial cells, vascular structures were produced in fibronectin-rich external layer and in radial septa, followed by angiogenic sprouting into the cardiomyocyte microtissue. Presence of vascular structures led to the maintenance of long-term survival and contractile capacity of cardiac microtissues. Conversely, bone marrow mesenchymal cells formed isolated cell aggregates, which progressively expressed the endothelial markers von Willebrand's antigen and CD31. They proceeded to typical vasculogenesis forming new blood vessels organised in radial pattern. Our results indicate that the in vitro 3D model of cardiomyocyte spheroids provides the two basic elements for formation of new blood vessels: fibronectin and VEGF. Within the myocardial environment, endothelial and mesenchymal cells can proceed to formation of new blood vessels either through angiogenesis or vasculogenesis, respectively.
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Dias Costa J, Soares R, Cysne Finkelstein L, Côrte-Real S, de Nazareth Meirelles M, Porrozzi R. Fast high yield of pure Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum axenic amastigotes and their infectivity to mouse macrophages. Parasitol Res 2009; 105:227-36. [PMID: 19294422 DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1390-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2008] [Accepted: 02/27/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Leishmania (L.) infantum (syn. Leishmania chagasi) is a dimorphic protozoan parasite that lives in promastigote and amastigote form in its sandfly vector and mammalian hosts, respectively. Here, we describe an in vitro culture system for the generation of a pure population of L. infantum axenic amastigotes after only 4 days incubation in culture medium supplemented with fetal calf serum, human urine, L: -glutamine, and HEPES at 37 masculineC (pH 5.5). Ultrastrutural analysis and infection assays in two macrophage populations (Kupffer cells (KUP) and peritoneal macrophages (PM)) infected with axenic amastigotes demonstrated that they maintained morphological and biochemical (A2 expression) features and a similar infection pattern to tissue-derived L. infantum amastigotes. The susceptibility of the macrophage lines to axenic or tissue-derived amastigotes and promastigotes was investigated. We found a completely different susceptibility profile for KUP and PM. Liver macrophages, both KUP and immigrant macrophages, are intimately involved in the response to L. infantum infection; this difference in susceptibility is probably related to their capacity to eliminate these parasites. Our in vitro system was thus able to generate axenic amastigotes that resemble tissue-derived amastigotes both in morphology and infectivity pattern; this will help in further investigation of the biological characteristics of the host-parasite relationship as well as the process of pathogenesis.
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Costa JD, de Melo ACN, Vermelho AB, Meirelles MDN, Porrozzi R. In vitro evidence for metallopeptidase participation in hepatocyte damage induced by Leishmania chagasi-infected macrophages. Acta Trop 2008; 106:175-83. [PMID: 18433728 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2007] [Revised: 03/07/2008] [Accepted: 03/13/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi infection activates macrophages, which release several microbicidal agents, including peptidases, to eliminate the parasite. Leishmanicidal mediators released in large amounts may cause morphological and/or functional injuries to the liver. In order to investigate the involvement of peptidases in this phenomenon, an in vitro co-culture model of peritoneal macrophages infected with L. chagasi and hepatocytes was used. High levels of released hepatic transaminases were found in supernatants from infected co-cultures at the same time point in which alterations in hepatocyte morphology and maximum proteolytic activity were observed. The largest proteolytic activity being at pH 10 as well as the greatest efficiency of treatment with 1,10-phenantroline observed in supernatants from the infected co-cultures suggests the presence of metallopeptidases during the leishmanicidal activity by infected macrophages. Furthermore, TNF-alpha levels and high levels of TGF-beta were increased at this time point, and this can be related to the synthesis of metallopeptidases and the conversion of the latent form to the active form. Metallopeptidase activities were detected by gelatin SDS-PAGE in higher amounts in infected macrophages and co-culture supernatant; moreover, one metallopeptidase migrating at 85 kDa produced in excess (41% more) by infected macrophages was identified as MMP-9. This metallopeptidase may be participating in this phenomenon together with other leishmanicidal factors released by these host cells.
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Dias Costa J, de Nazareth Meirelles M, Eduardo Pereira Velloso C, Porrozzi R. Leishmania chagasi: Cytotoxic effect of infected macrophages on parenchymal liver cells. Exp Parasitol 2007; 117:390-8. [PMID: 17719578 DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2006] [Revised: 05/07/2007] [Accepted: 05/14/2007] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi, the ethiological agent of New World visceral leishmaniasis, causes morphological and functional injury to the liver. To investigate the role of macrophage-released leishmanicidal factors in hepatocyte damage, we used a co-culture model of hepatocytes and L. chagasi promastigote-infected peritoneal macrophages obtained from C57BL/6 or BALB/c mice. C57BL/6 macrophages killed intracellular parasites more efficiently than BALB/c macrophages, leading to higher number of intracellular amastigotes in the BALB/c culture during the entire course of infection. Early TNF-alpha production led to macrophages activation resulting in parasite growth control. Hepatic transaminases and lactate dehydrogenase were present at high levels in the supernatants of both co-cultures; concurrently, parasites were eliminated from infected macrophages. Nitric oxide production was higher in C57BL/6 co-cultures than in BALB/c co-cultures. Inhibitors of the oxidative burst and secreted proteinases protected hepatocytes against toxicity, and treatment with an inducible nitric oxide synthase inhibitor fully impeded the enzyme release. Our data suggest that the intracellular cytotoxic effects elicited by macrophages for parasite destruction are directly associated with hepatocyte damage, and that nitric oxide plays a pivotal role in this phenomenon.
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- Juliana Dias Costa
- Laboratório de Pesquisas em Leishmaniose, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Avenida Brasil 4365, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21045-900, Brazil
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Adesse D, Garzoni LR, Huang H, Tanowitz HB, de Nazareth Meirelles M, Spray DC. Trypanosoma cruzi induces changes in cardiac connexin43 expression. Microbes Infect 2007; 10:21-8. [PMID: 18068391 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2007] [Revised: 09/18/2007] [Accepted: 09/25/2007] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Gap junction proteins (connexins) are required for myocardial function, since they allow intercellular transmission of current carrying ions and signaling molecules. Previous studies demonstrated that rat cardiac myocytes infected with Trypanosoma cruzi lost gap junctional communication and decreased automaticity. We infected mouse cardiac myocytes with trypomastigotes of the Y strain of T. cruzi and observed alterations in connexin43 (Cx43) distribution. One hour post infection Cx43 levels were significantly increased. However, at longer time points post infection there was a significant loss of Cx43 staining in membranes of infected cardiac myocytes. Interestingly, there was also a significant reduction in myocardial Cx43 protein levels during acute infection. These data indicate that T. cruzi infection alters Cx43 expression both in vitro and in vivo. Disruptions in Cx43 may contribute to the pathogenesis of cardiac electrical alterations observed in T. cruzi infection.
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- Daniel Adesse
- Laboratorio de Ultra-estrutura Celular, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Garzón E, Borges MC, Cordeiro-da-Silva A, Nacife V, Meirelles MDN, Guilvard E, Bosseno MF, Guevara AG, Brenière SF, Ouaissi A. Trypanosoma cruzi carrying a targeted deletion of a Tc52 protein-encoding allele elicits attenuated Chagas' disease in mice. Immunol Lett 2003; 89:67-80. [PMID: 12946866 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2478(03)00112-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The intracellular protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is the etiological agent of Chagas' disease. We have previously characterized a T. cruzi virulence factor named Tc52 sharing structural and functional properties with the thioredoxin and glutaredoxin protein family. Single mutant parasite clones (Tc52(+/-)) exhibiting low virulence in vitro and in vivo were obtained by targeted Tc52 gene replacement. In this report, we have extended our study to analyze the immune response and the disease phenotype in Tc52(+/-)-infected BALB/c mice, during the acute and chronic phases of the disease. Significantly lower parasitemia were found in Tc52(+/-)-infected mice, as compared to wild-type parasite (WT)-infected ones. However, the expansion of all classes of lymphocytes and macrophages was similar for both clones. Furthermore, except for IgG2b levels which were higher in the case of WT-infected mice, all classes of Ig presented no significant difference for WT and Tc52(+/-)-infected animals. Interestingly, a lack of suppression of IL-2 production and of T-cell proliferation inhibition was observed in the case of spleen cells from Tc52(+/-)-infected mice. Finally, the pattern of inflammation process was different and characterized as diffused in the case of Tc52(+/-)-infected mice, or presenting numerous foci in the case of WT-infected mice. Localization of the Tc52 protein in tissue sections and infected heart cell primary cultures by immunofluorescence and immunogold labeling, respectively, revealed the presence of Tc52 at the amastigote surface and associated to aggregates within host cell vesicles. Taken together, these results reinforce the notion of Tc52 being a virulence factor playing a role in the phenotype of the immune response associated to the infection and on the course of the disease.
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- Edwin Garzón
- IRD UR 008 Pathogénie des Trypanosomatidae, Centre IRD de Montpellier, 911 Avenue Agropolis, BP 5045, 34032 Montpellier Cedex, France
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Plotkowski MC, Filho MB, Meirelles MDN, Tournier JM, Puchelle E. Pseudomonas aeruginosa binds to soluble cellular fibronectin. Curr Microbiol 1993. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01577342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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