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FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR AND INFECTION MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.618430
Keywords
Plasmodium; malaria; sporozoite; gene regulation; quiescence; transcription; translational repression
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- Laboratoire d'Excellence ParaFrap [ANR-11-LABX-0024]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-16-CE15-0004, ANR-16-CE15-0010]
- Fondation pour la Recherche Me'dicale [EQU201903007823]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-16-CE15-0004, ANR-16-CE15-0010] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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Plasmodium sporozoites transmitted by anopheline mosquitoes infect the liver and transform into replicative forms, releasing merozoites that cause malaria. Some species can form dormant hypnozoites in the liver, causing relapses. Gene expression during transmission from mosquito to mammalian host is tightly regulated, with transcriptome and proteome reprogramming involved in the transition. Regulatory mechanisms control gene expression in sporozoites with alternating waves of transcription activity and translational repression.
Plasmodium sporozoites are transmitted to mammals by anopheline mosquitoes and first infect the liver, where they transform into replicative exoerythrocytic forms, which subsequently release thousands of merozoites that invade erythrocytes and initiate the malaria disease. In some species, sporozoites can transform into dormant hypnozoites in the liver, which cause malaria relapses upon reactivation. Transmission from the insect vector to a mammalian host is a critical step of the parasite life cycle, and requires tightly regulated gene expression. Sporozoites are formed inside oocysts in the mosquito midgut and become fully infectious after colonization of the insect salivary glands, where they remain quiescent until transmission. Parasite maturation into infectious sporozoites is associated with reprogramming of the sporozoite transcriptome and proteome, which depends on multiple layers of transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms. An emerging scheme is that gene expression in Plasmodium sporozoites is controlled by alternating waves of transcription activity and translational repression, which shape the parasite RNA and protein repertoires for successful transition from the mosquito vector to the mammalian host.
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