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Di-Blasi T, Lobo AR, Nascimento LM, Córdova-Rojas JL, Pestana K, Marín-Villa M, Tempone AJ, Telleria EL, Ramalho-Ortigão M, McMahon-Pratt D, Traub-Csekö YM. The flagellar protein FLAG1/SMP1 is a candidate for Leishmania-sand fly interaction. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2015; 15:202-9. [PMID: 25793476 DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2014.1736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Leishmaniasis is a serious problem that affects mostly poor countries. Various species of Leishmania are the agents of the disease, which take different clinical manifestations. The parasite is transmitted by sandflies, predominantly from the Phlebotomus genus in the Old World and Lutzomyia in the New World. During development in the gut, Leishmania must survive various challenges, which include avoiding being expelled with blood remnants after digestion. It is believed that attachment to the gut epithelium is a necessary step for vector infection, and molecules from parasites and sand flies have been implicated in this attachment. In previous work, monoclonal antibodies were produced against Leishmania. Among these an antibody was obtained against Leishmania braziliensis flagella, which blocked the attachment of Leishmania panamensis flagella to Phlebotomus papatasi guts. The protein recognized by this antibody was identified and named FLAG1, and the complete FLAG1 gene sequence was obtained. This protein was later independently identified as a small, myristoylated protein and called SMP1, so from now on it will be denominated FLAG1/SMP1. The FLAG1/SMP1 gene is expressed in all developmental stages of the parasite, but has higher expression in promastigotes. The anti-FLAG1/SMP1 antibody recognized the flagellum of all Leishmania species tested and generated the expected band by western blots. This antibody was used in attachment and infection blocking experiments. Using the New World vector Lutzomyia longipalpis and Leishmania infantum chagasi, no inhibition of attachment ex vivo or infection in vivo was seen. On the other hand, when the Old World vectors P. papatasi and Leishmania major were used, a significant decrease of both attachment and infection were seen in the presence of the antibody. We propose that FLAG1/SMP1 is involved in the attachment/infection of Leishmania in the strict vector P. papatasi and not the permissive vector L. longipalpis.
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- Tatiana Di-Blasi
- 1 Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Parasitas e Vetores, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz , FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Cell fractionation, a methodological strategy for obtaining purified organelle preparations, has been applied successfully to parasitic protozoa by a number of investigators. Here we present and discuss the work of several groups that have obtained highly purified subcellular fractions from trypanosomatids, Apicomplexa and trichomonads, and whose work have added substantially to our knowledge of the cell biology of these parasites.
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- Wanderley de Souza
- Laboratório de Ultraestrutura Celular Hertha Meyer, Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-900, Brasil.
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Mukherjee M, Bhattacharyya A, Duttagupta S. Monoclonal antibody affinity purification of a 78 kDa membrane protein of Leishmania donovani of Indian origin and its role in host-parasite interaction. J Biosci 2002; 27:665-72. [PMID: 12571371 DOI: 10.1007/bf02708374] [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: 10/22/2022]
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Monoclonal antibodies were raised against pathogenic promastigotes of Leishmania donovani of Indian origin. Among these, one was used for immuno-affinity purification of a 78 kDa membrane protein present in both the amastigote and promastigote forms of the parasite. Results of immunoblot experiments with the anti-78 kDa antibody revealed that the protein was present only in parasites belonging to the L. donovani complex. The expression of the protein was observed to be the same during different phases of growth of the promastigotes. Therefore, the 78 kDa protein is neither stage-specific nor differentially regulated. Surface iodination and subcellular fractionation of the promastigotes indicated that the protein was localized on the cell surface. The 78 kDa protein was found to inhibit the binding of promastigotes to macrophages significantly, suggesting that it may play a role in the process of infection. Thus, here we report the purification of a surface protein of L. donovani of Indian origin, which may play an important role in the process of infection.
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- Mandira Mukherjee
- Leishmania Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja SC Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, India.
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Moore LL, Santrich C, LeBowitz JH. Stage-specific expression of the Leishmania mexicana paraflagellar rod protein PFR-2. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1996; 80:125-35. [PMID: 8892290 DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02688-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A screen for Leishmania mexicana genes encoding promastigote-specific flagellar proteins resulted in isolation of genes encoding the major components of the paraflagellar rod. One of these, PFR-2, was characterized extensively. PFR-2 genes are present in the genome as a tandem array of three genes designated PFR-2A, PFR-2B, PFR-2C. PFR-2A and PFR-2B are encoded by a 3.1 transcript while PFR-2C is encoded by a 3.8-kb transcript that has a 3' UTR different from that of the 3.1-kb transcript. Both of these mRNAs were 15-fold more abundant in promastigotes than in amastigotes. Two transcripts immediately upstream of the locus were constitutively expressed while two downstream transcripts were fourfold more abundant in promastigotes than in amastigotes. The PFR genes will provide a good model system for analysis of stage-specific gene regulation in Leishmania as well as assist in the characterization of the function and organization of the paraflagellar rod.
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- L L Moore
- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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Singla N, Vinayak VK. Leishmania donovani flagellum-specific epitopes mediating host-parasite interactions. FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 1994; 8:175-81. [PMID: 7516230 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.1994.tb00440.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Monoclonal antibodies were developed against flagellar components of promastigotes of Leishmania donovani. The monoclonal antibody produced by clone A11 (mAb A11) recognised epitopes in the polypeptides with molecular weights of 86, 66 and weakly 53 kDa. These epitopes were found to be distributed along the flagellum and at the anterior end of promastigotes. The mAb A11 of IgG1 isotype strongly agglutinated the promastigotes of L. donovani. The prior treatment of promastigotes of L. donovani with mAb A11 resulted in a significant (P < 0.001) reduction in the attachment of promastigotes to cultured mouse peritoneal macrophages of line J774G8. The affinity-purified epitopes identified by mAb A11 were recognised by human sera of cases of visceral leishmaniasis. The present study suggest that flagellar-specific epitopes mediate host-parasite interactions and, therefore, the role of these epitopes in the disease process is speculated.
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- N Singla
- Department of Experimental Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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Ismach R, Cianci CM, Caulfield JP, Langer PJ, Hein A, McMahon-Pratt D. Flagellar membrane and paraxial rod proteins of Leishmania: characterization employing monoclonal antibodies. THE JOURNAL OF PROTOZOOLOGY 1989; 36:617-24. [PMID: 2689639 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1989.tb01105.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Flagella-specific proteins of Leishmania have been identified employing the monoclonal antibody technique. Six monoclonal antibodies recognized 3 different proteins. A doublet of protein of Mr 69,000 and 74,000 Da identified by monoclonal antibodies F-3, F-4 and F-6 is continuously distributed along the flagellum by immunofluorescence. Immunocytochemical electron microscopic studies localize these molecules to the paraxial rod of the flagellum. A single protein of Mr 13,200 Da is recognized by monoclonal antibodies F-1, F-2 and F-5. The distribution of the Mr 13,200 protein appears irregular, occurring in localized patches along the length of the flagellum, especially at the flagellar tip. Immunocytochemical electron microscopic experiments show that the Mr 13,200 molecule is associated with the membrane of the flagellum. Indirect immunofluorescence experiments demonstrated these monoclonal antibodies cross-reacted with members of the Kinetoplastida family (Endotrypanum, trypanosoma, Leishmania) suggesting that these molecules may be evolutionarily conserved.
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- R Ismach
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510
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Antiserum directed against cell surface antigens is lethal toLeishmania donovani promastigotes. J Biosci 1988. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02903094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Grab DJ, Webster P, Ito S, Fish WR, Verjee Y, Lonsdale-Eccles JD. Subcellular localization of a variable surface glycoprotein phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase-C in African trypanosomes. J Cell Biol 1987; 105:737-46. [PMID: 3624307 PMCID: PMC2114756 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.105.2.737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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African trypanosomes contain a membrane-bound enzyme capable of removing dimyristylglycerol from the membrane-attached form of the variable surface glycoprotein (mfVSG; Ferguson, M. A. J., K. Halder, and G. A. M. Cross, 1985, J. Biol Chem., 260:4963-4968). Although mfVSG phospholipase-C has been implicated in the removal of the VSG from the trypanosome surface (Cardoso de Almeida, M. L., and M. J. Turner, 1983, Nature (Lond.)., 302:349-352; Ferguson, M. A. J., K. Halder, and G. A. M. Cross, 1985, J. Biol Chem., 260:4963-4968), its precise function and subcellular location have not been determined. We have developed a procedure for the separation of the cell fractions and organelles of Trypanosoma brucei brucei (and other trypanosome species) by differential sucrose and isopycnic PercollR centrifugation. These fractions were tested for mfVSG phospholipase activity using Trypanosoma brucei mfVSG labeled with 3H-myristic acid as substrate. The highest enzyme-specific activity was associated with the flagella and evidence is presented to suggest that it is localized in the flagellar pocket. Some activity was also associated with the Golgi complex. These results suggest that the mfVSG phospholipase is localized primarily in the membrane of the flagella pocket and possibly other membrane organelles derived from and associated with this structure, and may be part of the VSG-membrane recycling system in African trypanosomes. The activity of mfVSG phospholipase amongst various trypanosome species was determined. We show that, in contrast to the bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei, cultured procyclic Trypanosoma brucei and bloodstream Trypanosoma vivax had little or no mfVSG phospholipase activity. The activity found in bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma congolense was intermediate between Trypanosoma vivax and Trypanosoma brucei.
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Castellanos GB, Menezes S, Angluster J, De Souza W, Caldas LR. Effect of methylene blue and illumination on the process of differentiation of the protozoan Herpetomonas samuelpessoai. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION BIOLOGY AND RELATED STUDIES IN PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, AND MEDICINE 1985; 47:191-5. [PMID: 3872273 DOI: 10.1080/09553008514550261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Herpetomonas samuelpessoai is a non-pathogenic protozoan that shares important antigens with Trypanosoma cruzi (the agent of Chagas' disease) and which shows three developmental stages: promastigote, paramastigote and the highly differentiated form opisthomastigote. Due to the difficulties in obtaining the last form, its physiology and biochemistry are not well understood, and procedures which can induce the process of differentiation promastigote-opisthomastigote are desirable. In this work we show that illumination of H. samuelpessoai with white light in the presence of methylene blue and oxygen (photodynamic effect) triggers the process of differentiation in a very efficient manner (the cultures show up to 70 per cent of the cells in the opisthomastigote form). We also observed that illumination alone and incubation with methylene blue in the dark can trigger the process but in levels markedly lower than illumination in the presence of the dye.
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Cabeza Meckert PM, Cazzulo JJ, Segura EL, Esteva M, Ruiz AM, Gelpi R, Laguens RP. Induction of heart alterations by immunization with subcellular fractions from Crithidia fasciculata. EXPERIENTIA 1984; 40:171-3. [PMID: 6365581 DOI: 10.1007/bf01963583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Immunization of mice with subcellular fractions of C. fasciculata led to myocarditis and electrocardiographic alterations similar to those induced by immunization with T. cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas' disease, suggesting the presence of similar cardiotoxic antigens in both trypanosomatid flagellates.
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Previato JO, Mendonça-Previato L, Lewanczuk RZ, Travassos LR, Gorin PA. Crithidia spp.: structural comparison of polysaccharides for taxonomic significance. Exp Parasitol 1982; 53:170-8. [PMID: 7060703 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4894(82)90058-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Fong D, Chang KP. Tubulin biosynthesis in the developmental cycle of a parasitic protozoan, Leishmania mexicana: changes during differentiation of motile and nonmotile stages. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1981; 78:7624-8. [PMID: 6950404 PMCID: PMC349321 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.78.12.7624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Cytodifferentiation in the transition cycle of the parasitic protozoan Leishmania mexicana amazonensis was studied in vitro. The flagellated motile promastigotes transform into the nonmotile amastigotes in 7 days at 35 degrees C intracellularly in the murine macrophage line J774G8. In medium 199 plus fetal bovine serum, the reverse transformation occurs extracellularly at 27 degrees C in 2 days. Slab gel electrophoresis of leishmanias labeled with [35S]methionine during transformation revealed changes in protein banding patterns. The intensity of two protein species with apparent molecular weights of approximately equal to 55,000 increased in the amastigote-to-promastigote differentiation and decreased during the reverse transformation. These two protein species comigrated approximately with alpha- and beta-tubulin of Chlamydomonas flagella in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The lower band was further identified as beta-tubulin by immunoprecipitation using rabbit antiserum specific to the beta-tubulin of Chlamydomonas axonemes. The biosynthetic change of tubulin was found to correlate with the morphological change of microtubules is leishmanial flagella and cytoskeleton during transformation.
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Rondinelli E, Soares MC, de Castro JF, de Castro FT. Characterization of messenger RNA populations of Crithidia fasciculata. Arch Biochem Biophys 1981; 209:349-55. [PMID: 6117249 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(81)90291-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Gorin PA, Barreto-Bergter EM, Da Cruz FS. The chemical structure of the d-galacto-d-mannan component of trypanosoma cruzi: 13c-n.m.r. shift dependence on structure of d-galactose to d-mannose linkage. Carbohydr Res 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/s0008-6215(00)85532-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Piras MM, De Rodriguez OO, Piras R. Trypanosoma cruzi: antigenic composition of axonemes and flagellar membranes of epimastigotes cultured in vitro. Exp Parasitol 1981; 51:59-73. [PMID: 6161837 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4894(81)90042-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Gorin PA, Previato JO, Mendonça-Previato L, Travassos LR. Structure of the D-mannan and D-arabino-D-galactan in Crithidia fasciculata: changes in proportion with age of culture. THE JOURNAL OF PROTOZOOLOGY 1979; 26:473-8. [PMID: 536936 DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1979.tb04656.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Cells of the insect flagellate Crithidia fasciculata contained mannan and arabinogalactan components, whose porportion varied with culture age, the former predominating during early stages, and the latter during the later stages of exponential growth and the deceleration phase. The mannan was a beta-D-(1 leads to 2)-linked D-mannopyranan. The arabinogalactan had a complex structure containing, in part, a beta-D-(1 leads to 3)-linked galactopyranose main-chain substituted in the 2 positions by single-unit D-arabinopyranose side-chains and with some unsubstituted units.
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Pereira NM, Timm SL, da Costa SC, Rebello MA, de Souza W. Trypanosoma cruzi: isolation and characterization of membrane and flagellar fractions. Exp Parasitol 1978; 46:225-34. [PMID: 153234 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4894(78)90135-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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