Journal
MALARIA JOURNAL
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-69
Keywords
ATP; Purinergic receptor; Malaria; Plasmodium berghei; Plasmodium yoelii; Protease activity; Calcium modulation; Merozoite surface protein 1
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- FAPESP
- CNPq - InBqmed
- UK Medical Research Council [U117532067, U117532063]
- EU through the Network of Excellence EviMalaR [Health-2009-2.3.2-1-242095]
- Medical Research Council [MC_U117532067, MC_U117532063] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_U117532063, MC_U117532067] Funding Source: UKRI
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Background: Plasmodium has a complex cell biology and it is essential to dissect the cell-signalling pathways underlying its survival within the host. Methods: Using the fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) peptide substrate Abz-AIKFFARQ-EDDnp and Fluo4/AM, the effects of extracellular ATP on triggering proteolysis and Ca2+ signalling in Plasmodium berghei and Plasmodium yoelii malaria parasites were investigated. Results: The protease activity was blocked in the presence of the purinergic receptor blockers suramin (50 mu M) and PPADS (50 mu M) or the extracellular and intracellular calcium chelators EGTA (5 mM) and BAPTA/AM (25, 100, 200 and 500 mu M), respectively for P. yoelii and P. berghei. Addition of ATP (50, 70, 200 and 250 mu M) to isolated parasites previously loaded with Fluo4/AM in a Ca2+-containing medium led to an increase in cytosolic calcium. This rise was blocked by pre-incubating the parasites with either purinergic antagonists PPADS (50 mu M), TNP-ATP (50 mu M) or the purinergic blockers KN-62 (10 mu M) and Ip5I (10 mu M). Incubating P. berghei infected cells with KN-62 (200 mu M) resulted in a changed profile of merozoite surface protein 1 (MSP1) processing as revealed by western blot assays. Moreover incubating P. berghei for 17 h with KN-62 (10 mu M) led to an increase in rings forms (82% +/- 4, n = 11) and a decrease in trophozoite forms (18% +/- 4, n = 11). Conclusions: The data clearly show that purinergic signalling modulates P. berghei protease(s) activity and that MSP1 is one target in this pathway.
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