| Literature DB >> 26118996 |
Aditya S Paul1, Sudeshna Saha2, Klemens Engelberg2, Rays H Y Jiang1, Bradley I Coleman2, Aziz L Kosber1, Chun-Ti Chen2, Markus Ganter1, Nicole Espy1, Tim W Gilberger3, Marc-Jan Gubbels2, Manoj T Duraisingh4.
Abstract
Apicomplexans invade a variety of metazoan host cells through mechanisms involving host cell receptor engagement and secretion of parasite factors to facilitate cellular attachment. We find that the parasite homolog of calcineurin, a calcium-regulated phosphatase complex central to signal transduction in eukaryotes, also contributes to host cell invasion by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and related Toxoplasma gondii. Using reverse-genetic and chemical-genetic approaches, we determine that calcineurin critically regulates and stabilizes attachment of extracellular P. falciparum to host erythrocytes before intracellular entry and has similar functions in host cell engagement by T. gondii. Calcineurin-mediated Plasmodium invasion is strongly associated with host receptors required for host cell recognition, and calcineurin function distinguishes this form of receptor-mediated attachment from a second mode of host-parasite adhesion independent of host receptors. This specific role of calcineurin in coordinating physical interactions with host cells highlights an ancestral mechanism for parasitism used by apicomplexans.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID： 26118996 PMCID： PMC4506782 DOI： 10.1016/j.chom.2015.06.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Host Microbe ISSN： 1931-3128 Impact factor: 21.023