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JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY
卷 52, 期 3, 页码 277-289出版社
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00030.x
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acidocalcisome; electron probe X-ray microanalysis; L-alanine; osmotic homeostasis; zinc
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The protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani encounters large fluctuations in osmolality as it cycles between its insect vector and human host. The flagellated promastigote exhibits regulatory volume responses involving organic and inorganic osmolytes, but little is known about volume regulation in the clinically relevant amastigote that multiplies within the parasitophorous vacuoles of maminalian host cells. Using a combination of morphological, X-ray microanalytical, and biochemical approaches we determined that nonmotile amastigotes respond to hypotonic stress with (1) an amino acid and L-alanine-mediated regulatory volume decrease, and (2) a parallel release of Na+, K+, P (presumably as negatively charged phosphates), and subsequently Cl- from cytoplasm and the cell as a whole. In addition P, Zn2+, and subsequently Ca2+ increase in acidocalcisomes as Cl- content declines in this compartment. This evidence is the first to document subcellular translocation of, and thus a potential role for, zinc in volume regulatory responses. These coordinated changes in organic and inorganic osmolytes demonstrate that amastigote subcellular compartments, particularly acidocalcisomes, function in maintaining ionic homeostasis in the response of Leishmania amastigotes to hypo-osmotic stress.
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