Both IgM and IgG anti-VSG antibodies initiate a cycle of aggregation-disaggregation of bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei without damage to the parasite

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作者
O'Beirne, C [1 ]
Lowry, CM [1 ]
Voorheis, HP [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Dublin Trinity Coll, Dept Biochem, Dublin 2, Ireland
关键词
Trypanosoma brucei; variant surface glycoprotein; antibodies; aggregation; disaggregation; endosome; cyclicAMP; protein kinase; proteolysis;
D O I
10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00191-6
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei, when aggregated in the presence of either acute immune plasma, acute immune serum, purified IgM anti-VSG antibodies or purified IgG anti-VSG antibodies, subsequently disaggregated with a t(1/2) for disaggregation of 15 min at 37 degrees C as long as the trypanosomes were metabolically active at the beginning of the experiment and maintained during the experiment in a suitable supporting medium. The t(1/2) for disaggregation was found to be directly dependent upon temperature and inversely proportional to the antibody concentration. The trypanosomes were always motile and metabolically active during aggregation and after disaggregation and were fully infective for a mammalian host following disaggregation as well as able to grow and divide normally during axenic culture. The disaggregation was strictly energy dependent and was inhibited when intracellular ATP levels were reduced by salicylhydroxamic acid or following addition of oligomycin while respiring glucose. In addition the process of disaggregation was dependent upon normal endosomal activity as evidenced by its sensitivity to a wide variety of inhibitors of various endosomal functions. Disaggregation was not due to separation of immunoglobulin chains by either disulphide reduction or disulphide exchange reactions and gross proteolytic cleavage of the immunoglobulins attached to the surface of the parasite was not detected. In addition, gross cleavage or release of the VSG from the surface of the cell did not occur during disaggregation but proteolytic cleavage of a small proportion of either the VSG or the immunoglobulins could not be eliminated from consideration. Finally the mechanism of disaggregation was found to be a regulated process, independent of Ca2+ movements but dependent upon the activity of protein kinase C or related kinases and inhibited by the activity of protein kinase A as evidenced by the effects of a panel of inhibitors and cAMP analogues on the process of disaggregation. The mechanism of disaggregation displayed by trypanosomes aggregated by anti-VSG antibody is proposed to form part of the parasite's defence against the host immune system and functions to aid survival of trypanosomes in the presence of antibody in the host prior to the occurrence of a VSG switching event. (C) 1998 Francqui Foundation. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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