Journal
MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY
Volume 168, Issue 1, Pages 113-116Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2009.06.008
Keywords
Glucose; Transport; GLUT1/5; PfHT; BboHT1; Oocyte
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- Wellcome Trust [077441]
- Commission of the European Communities [LSHP-CT-2005-018834]
- Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow
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Here we have investigated the inhibitory properties of green tea catechins on the Plasmodium falciparum hexose transporter (PfHT), the Babesia bovis hexose transporter 1 (BboHT1) and the mammalian facilitative glucose transporters, GLUT1 and GLUT5, expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes. (-)-Epicatechin-gallate (ECG) and (-)-epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) inhibited D-glucose transport by GLUT1 and PfHT, and D-fructose transport by GLUTS, with apparent K-i values between 45 and 117 mu M. BboHT1 was more potently inhibited by the ungallated catechins (-)-epicatechin (EC) and (-)-epigallocatechin (EGC), with apparent K-i values of 108 and 168 mu M, respectively Site-directed mutagenesis experiments provided little further support for previously reported models of catechin binding to hexose transporters. Furthermore, P. falciparum growth inhibition by catechins was not affected by the external D-glucose concentration. Our results provide new data on the inhibitory action of catechins against sugar transporters but were unable to elucidate the antimalarial mechanism of action of these agents. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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