Overexpression of leucyl aminopeptidase in Plasmodium falciparum parasites -: Target for the antimalarial activity of bestatin

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Gardiner, DL
Trenholme, KR
Adams, TSS
Stack, CM
Dalton, JP
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[1] Univ Technol Sydney, Inst Biotechnol Infect Dis, Sydney, NSW 2065, Australia
[2] Queensland Inst Med Res, Australian Ctr Int & Trop Hlth & Nutr, Malaria Biol Lab, Brisbane, Qld 4029, Australia
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10.1074/jbc.M508955200
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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Malaria aminopeptidases are important in the generation and regulation of free amino acids that are used in protein anabolism and for maintaining osmotic stability within the infected erythrocyte. The intraerythrocytic development of malaria parasites is blocked when the activity of aminopeptidases is specifically inhibited by reagents such as bestatin. One of the major aminopeptidases of malaria parasites is a leucyl aminopeptidase of the M17 family. We reasoned that, when this enzyme was the target of bestatin inhibition, its overexpression in malaria cells would lead to a reduced sensitivity to the inhibitor. To address this supposition, transgenic Plasmodium falciparum parasites overexpressing the leucyl aminopeptidase were generated by transfection with a plasmid that housed the full-length gene. Transgenic parasites expressed a 65-kDa protein close to the predicted molecule size of 67.831 kDa for the introduced leucyl aminopeptidase, and immunofluorescence studies localized the protein to the cytosol, the location of the native enzyme. The product of the transgene was shown to be functionally active with cytosolic extracts of transgenic parasites exhibiting twice the leucyl aminopeptidase activity compared with wildtype parasites. In vitro inhibitor sensitivity assays demonstrated that the transgenic parasites were more resistant to bestatin (EC50 64 mu M) compared with the parent parasites (EC50 25 mu M). Overexpression of genes in malaria parasites would have general application in the identification and validation of targets for antimalarial drugs.
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