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  • 标题:Plasmodium falciparum cysteine protease falcipain-1 is not essential in erythrocytic stage malaria parasites
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  • 作者:Puran S. Sijwali ; Kentaro Kato ; Karl B. Seydel
  • 期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
  • 电子版ISSN:1091-6490
  • 出版年度:2004
  • 卷号:101
  • 期号:23
  • 页码:8721-8726
  • DOI:10.1073/pnas.0402738101
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 摘要:Among potential new targets for antimalarial chemotherapy are Plasmodium falciparum cysteine proteases, known as falcipains. Falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 are food vacuole hemoglobinases that may have additional functions. The function of falcipain-1 remains uncertain. To better characterize the role of falcipain-1 in erythrocytic parasites, we disrupted the falcipain-1 gene and characterized recombinant parasites. Disruption of the falcipain-1 gene was confirmed with Southern blots, and loss of expression of falcipain-1 was confirmed with immunoblots and by loss of labeling with a specific protease inhibitor. Compared with wild-type parasites, falcipain-1 knockout parasites developed normally, with the same morphology, multiplication rate, and invasion efficiency, and without significant differences in sensitivity to cysteine protease inhibitors. In wild-type and knockout parasites, cysteine protease inhibitors blocked hemoglobin hydrolysis in trophozoites, with a subsequent block in rupture of erythrocytes by mature schizonts, but they did not inhibit erythrocyte invasion by merozoites. Our results indicate that although falcipain-1 is expressed by erythrocytic parasites, it is not essential for normal development during this stage or for erythrocyte invasion.
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