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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 364, Issue 3, Pages 601-607Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.10.065
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leishmania; aldolase; protein phosphatase; SHP-1 activator; macrophage
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The macrophage protein tyrosine phosphatase-1 SHP-1 has been implicated in the pathogenesis of infection with leishmania. To identify the factors that may interact with SHP-1, Leishmania donovani promastigote lysates were added to a GST-SHP-1 affinity matrix. A 44 kDa specifically bound protein was identified as leishmania fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (aldolase). Purified leishmania aldolase bound to SHP-1 indicating that the interaction was direct. In contrast, purified mammalian aldolase did not bind to SHP-1. Consistent with this, leishmania aldolase activated SHP-1 in vitro, whereas mammalian aldolase did not. The presence of leishmania aldolase in the cytosolic fractions prepared from infected macrophages indicated that leishmania aldolase is exported from phagolysosomes in infected cells where it can target host cytosolic proteins. In fact, co-immunoprecipitation showed association of leishmania aldolase with SHP-1. Moreover, leishmania aldolase-expressing macrophages showed the deactivated phenotype of leishmania infected cells as judged by much reduced inability to induce expression of nitric-oxide synthase in response to interferon-gamma treatment. Collectively, these data show that leishmania aldolase is a novel SHP-1 binding and activating protein that contributes to macrophage dysfunction. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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